by Bob Allen | Feb 29, 2008 | News
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether a speech last summer by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to a United Church of Christ national meeting violated rules for tax-exempt charities against partisan campaigning. The IRS notified...
by Bob Allen | Feb 28, 2008 | News
A Missouri legislator and pastor’s wife who appears in a Baptist Center for Ethics DVD about faith and politics is running for Congress. Two-term Missouri State Representative Judy Baker announced Monday she is seeking the 9th Congressional District stretching...
by Bob Allen | Feb 27, 2008 | News
Americans are leaving Baptist churches at nearly twice the rate that others are joining them, according to details of a study released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey portrayed American religion in flux, with 44...
by Bob Allen | Feb 26, 2008 | News
A Texas magazine is reporting that a former Baptist pastor accused of murdering his wife and staging it to look like she committed suicide has a long trail of allegations of sexual abuse. A 9,500-word cover story in the March 2008 Texas Monthly includes allegations...
by Bob Allen | Feb 25, 2008 | News
A judge in Jacksonville, Fla., has said a second lawsuit can move forward accusing a Baptist mega-church in the city of harboring a longtime former pastor now alleged to have been a pedophile. In all seven lawsuits have been filed against Trinity Baptist Church by...
