by Bob Allen | Jan 16, 2008 | News
An African-American Baptist preacher once promoted by past Southern Baptist Convention presidents Paige Patterson and Jerry Vines and the late television preacher Jerry Falwell surrendered to police in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday afternoon on charges of lewd and...
by Bob Allen | Jan 15, 2008 | News
Southside Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., made national headlines in 2001 for opening its doors to Temple Emanu-El during a two-year temple renovation, but what neither congregation knew at the time was that history was repeating itself. Archives revealed that the...
by Bob Allen | Jan 14, 2008 | News
Baptist Press reported that Mike Huckabee said he “stands by” a Southern Baptist statement on wifely submission, but a moderate leader says the former Arkansas governor misrepresented what the statement really says in last Thursday’s GOP presidential...
by Bob Allen | Jan 11, 2008 | News
The trial of a Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting two stepdaughters and raping one of them is moving forward, even though his lawyer says the two star witnesses have recanted. Charles Dickerson, senior pastor of Pearly Grove Baptist Church in Fresno,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 11, 2008 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president called charges by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests that he turned a blind eye to allegations of clergy sex abuse “snap judgments” that are “misinformed and inaccurate.” Paige Patterson,...