by Bob Allen | Sep 15, 2008 | News
Valentin Vasilizhenko, a pastor in the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, was among recent visitors, helping to distribute backpacks filled with school supplies for children in late August. Vasilizhenko said local authorities were grateful for...
by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2008 | News
Sarah Palin’s nomination as vice president has sparked debate in conservative religious circles about whether a mother with young children ought to work outside the home. Voddie Baucham, a Baptist pastor and author from Spring, Texas, said Tuesday on CNN that he...
by Bob Allen | Sep 11, 2008 | News
Church leaders in New Zealand have issued an open letter calling on all politicians to make reducing poverty a high priority during an election year. Leaders from Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Salvation Army churches joined in the appeal to...
by Bob Allen | Sep 10, 2008 | News
A Baptist state newspaper editor hopes leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention won’t take steps to rejoin the Baptist World Alliance. A motion at last summer’s SBC annual meeting asked the SBC Executive Committee to reconsider affiliation with the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 10, 2008 | News
Tip O’Neill’s famous quote that “all politics is local” is nowhere truer this year than in Alabama’s second congressional district, where both the Democratic and Republican candidates are deacons at the same Southern Baptist church. The...
