by Bob Allen | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Former Vice President Al Gore challenged 2,500 fellow Baptists at a Thursday luncheon with prophetic zeal to take up the mantle of reversing global warming. Speaking to a luncheon crowd at this week’s New Baptist Covenant Celebration, Gore recalled words of an...
by Bob Allen | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Why are Baptists so often viewed as narrow, intolerant, politically naïve and prone to internal warfare? “The reason is because for so long so many Baptists have worked so hard to exclude so many,” author John Grisham said Thursday in a message at the New...
by Bob Allen | Jan 31, 2008 | News
One of the world’s most famous Baptists, Jimmy Carter accepted Christ at age 11 and began teaching Bible lessons 65 years ago. “But this celebration of the New Baptist Covenant is the most momentous event in my religious life,” the 39th U.S....
by Bob Allen | Jan 31, 2008 | News
The past seven years in Washington have seen an “epidemic of indifference” and a “collective turning of the government’s back” on people in need, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a joint meeting of four major...
by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2008 | News
The Republican Party used religious conservatives in a machine manufactured and bankrolled by fiscal conservatives, reaping benefits like tax cuts and new business opportunities, a group of panelists said in a Tuesday screening of “Golden Rule Politics” in...
