by Bob Allen | Dec 26, 2007 | News
Once the most sought-after African-American on the Southern Baptist Convention preaching circuit before sexual misconduct marred his ministry in the 1990s, Pastor Darrell Gilyard has taken a leave of absence from his Jacksonville, Fla., mega-church after a woman told...
by Bob Allen | Dec 21, 2007 | News
National media describe an army of homeschoolers propelling Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee over the top in Iowa, but several blogs suggest not all home educators are marching in lockstep. “When you understand he’s a Baptist minister, you...
by Bob Allen | Dec 21, 2007 | News
A prominent Southern Baptist church in Austin, Texas, may see its second former minister go to prison for sexual abuse of a child. Jerry Dale Carver, 52, pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted sexual abuse of a child, according to Austin’s Fox 7 News. The former...
by Bob Allen | Dec 20, 2007 | News
Presidential candidate Fred Thompson spoke ministerially–a euphemism in preacher circles for inflating numbers from the pulpit–when he claimed endorsement by two men representing 40 million Wesleyans, according to a newspaper report. Last week Thompson...
by Bob Allen | Dec 19, 2007 | News
The head of an Illinois Baptist ministry that specializes in work with abused and neglected children says he stands by his decision four years ago to ask for leniency in the sentencing of a pastor who confessed to criminal sexual assault of a teenage girl. Doug...
