by Bob Allen | Dec 12, 2007 | News
Judges have thrown out two of six child-molestation lawsuits against a Florida Baptist mega-church, saying they were filed after a statute of limitations had expired.An attorney for Trinity Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., told the Florida Times-Union similar...
by Bob Allen | Dec 11, 2007 | News
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson picked up a rare endorsement from a religious leader–a Southern Baptist layman credited with rescuing the nation’s second largest faith group from what he and others viewed as a liberal drift. “Fred...
by Bob Allen | Dec 10, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist pastor charged last month with domestic violence after a fight with his wife resigned from his Atlanta-area church on Sunday, according to media reports. “God has shown me that I need to step down,” Jeff Witcher, senior pastor of First...
by Bob Allen | Dec 7, 2007 | News
Stung by criticism since appearing as a character witness for a former church youth worker who confessed to child molestation, a leader in the African-American Baptist community Asheville, N.C., pledged to find ways to help churches protect children from sexual abuse....
by Bob Allen | Dec 5, 2007 | News
A prominent Florida mega-church is scheduled to vote tonight on whether begin a Christian academy, joining a grassroots strategy to eventually build a large network of Southern Baptist schools to compete with public education. Some members of First Baptist Church of...
