by Bob Allen | Nov 7, 2007 | News
Baptists in the United Kingdom last Sunday took part in a second “On Our Knees” emphasis aimed at turning around a dramatic decline in the number of children attending Baptist churches. After discovering that contact was lost with nearly one third of...
by Bob Allen | Nov 6, 2007 | News
A prominent Southern Baptist church in Florida once picketed by homosexual groups for its opposition to gay marriage is now in headlines for the arrest of a volunteer youth minister accused of sexually abusing teenage boys he met through the church. Pastor Jay Dennis...
by Bob Allen | Nov 6, 2007 | News
The head of the Baptist Center for Ethics warned teachers in Arkansas that some religious leaders want to harm public schools. “If you want to know what Southern Baptist Convention leaders really think about public education, follow them to school,” Robert...
by Bob Allen | Nov 5, 2007 | News
Instead of using God as a political wedge, American Christians ought to pray to be used by God, says Tim Alexander, a Church of Christ minister in Nashville, Tenn. “I think churches have made the bargain of Esau,” Alexander says in “Golden Rule...
by Bob Allen | Nov 5, 2007 | News
A state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has adopted a policy for reporting sexual abuse by clergy that a victim advocate hopes will become a model for other Baptist bodies. The plan, approved last month by the Coordinating Council of the Alabama Cooperative Baptist...
