by Bob Allen | Mar 5, 2008 | News
Should a Southern Baptist Convention leader resign for using a Yiddish slur against a Jewish senator, or is it “much ado about not much?” That’s the range of reaction to Monday’s EthicsDaily.com story quoting Ethics & Religious Liberty head...
by Bob Allen | Mar 4, 2008 | News
A British Bible society is launching the first-ever study Bible highlighting more than 2,000 verses that emphasize God’s concern about injustice and the poor. According to a press release, the idea for The Poverty and Justice Bible came from a comment by Purpose...
by Bob Allen | Mar 4, 2008 | News
President Bush’s liaison to the Religious Right resigned Friday after admitting that he plagiarized articles he wrote for his hometown newspaper.Tim Goeglein, special assistant to the president and deputy director of public liaison for the White House,...
by Bob Allen | Mar 3, 2008 | News
A Southern Baptist leader lecturing at Criswell College used a gutter word to describe a Jewish U.S. senator. During the Jan. 29-31 Criswell Theological Lectures at the Dallas school, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics &...
by Bob Allen | Feb 29, 2008 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention will have a hard time addressing either the problem of sexual abuse by clergy or domestic violence as long as its leaders persist in the theological view that women are subject to men, a victims’ advocate says. “I feel the...
