by Bob Allen | Sep 21, 2007 | News
Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said in an e-mail to friends he will not support Fred Thompson for president, citing in part the GOP hopeful’s lack of church attendance. The Associated Press reported parts of a private e-mail that Dobson reportedly sent...
by Bob Allen | Sep 21, 2007 | News
A clergy sexual-abuse survivor says the staff member guiding a Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee response to a motion calling for a national database of clergy sex offenders has a negative attitude toward the proposal and should be replaced with someone...
by Bob Allen | Sep 20, 2007 | News
Religion has a major role to play in the outcome of immigration debate but is largely overlooked amid local tensions and failed efforts in Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform, three experts said in a telephone news conference Wednesday. Immigrants and...
by Bob Allen | Sep 20, 2007 | News
An alleged victim of a former Southern Baptist pastor facing felony charges of sexual battery by an authority figure testified recently in court they entered into a long-term sexual relationship because the preacher convinced him it was a part of God’s plan....
by Bob Allen | Sep 19, 2007 | News
An American Baptist pastor in Arlington, Texas, is credited with bringing international attention to a civil-rights case in a small Louisiana town known worldwide as the Jena 6. Thousands of activists were expected to descend on the rural community of 3,000...
