by Bob Allen | Oct 23, 2007 | News
Time was when a vacationing Baptist could drop in on any church in the South and pick up a copy of the same Sunday school quarterly used back home. Today, more churches have ceased shopping exclusively at the company store, turning to a variety of publishers and...
by Bob Allen | Oct 22, 2007 | News
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was the overwhelming favorite in a straw poll taken on site at Friday and Saturday’s Washington values voter summit, but Internet voting by supporters of Mitt Romney made the former Massachusetts governor the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2007 | News
The one-time director of hunger concerns for the Southern Baptist Convention said a downturn in giving to an annual hunger offering indicates the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has turned its back on the poor. “Southern Baptist fundamentalists...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2007 | News
Faith leaders called Thursday’s House of Representatives vote upholding President Bush’s veto of a children’s health insurance bill a defeat for America’s children and win for tobacco. The House of Representatives voted 273-156 to expand the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 18, 2007 | News
A European Baptist leader renewed calls to pressure Azerbaijan to release an imprisoned Baptist minister after a court rejected an appeal of his two-year prison sentence Oct. 3. Tony Peck, general secretary of the European Baptist Federation, wrote Mehriban Aliyeva,...
