by Bob Allen | Aug 30, 2007 | News
A moderate Baptist ethicist said Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s men’s-room arrest–the latest in a string of scandals involving Republican politicians–is further embarrassment for the Religious Right. “None in our stunned nation are reeling more...
by Bob Allen | Aug 29, 2007 | News
Karl Rove, credited as the architect of President Bush’s successful political strategy of cultivating the evangelical right, used the occasion of his White House resignation to deny circulating reports that he is an unbeliever and spark a war of words with...
by Bob Allen | Aug 29, 2007 | News
South Korea’s government and Taliban militants said Tuesday they had reached a deal to free 19 South Korean hostages held captive held for more six weeks in Afghanistan. According to news reports, South Korea agreed to demands to withdraw 200 of its troops...
by Bob Allen | Aug 28, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president told a North Carolina newspaper that public schools are not neutral toward religion but rather hostile to people of faith. “In the public schools, you don’t just have neutrality, you have hostility toward organized...
by Bob Allen | Aug 27, 2007 | News
Rwanda’s genocide was in part a failure of the Christian church, a former hotel manager whose efforts to save the lives of more than 1,200 of his countrymen inspired the Academy Award-nominated movie “Hotel Rwanda,” said in a Sunday interview. Prior...
