by Bob Allen | Jul 27, 2007 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and 1990s was supposed to be over inerrancy–the view that the Bible in its original form (called the “autographs”)–is literally true. But a University of Chicago professor says in a...
by Bob Allen | Jul 27, 2007 | News
A major newspaper backed away from declaring Focus on the Family founder James Dobson a fan of Harry Potter, despite articles on Dobson’s Web site which fellow fundamentalists have long attacked as “conditional acceptance” of the hit fantasy film and...
by Bob Allen | Jul 26, 2007 | News
President Bush has threatened to veto proposed expansion of a program for families who earn too much for Medicaid but cannot afford insurance for their children, to be financed by an increase in the federal tax on tobacco. Created by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997,...
by Bob Allen | Jul 25, 2007 | News
The head of the European Baptist Federation criticized British Baptists for failure to apologize for slavery at a recent Baptist World Alliance gathering to pursue racial reconciliation in Accra, Ghana. In a letter to the editor in the July 19 Baptist Times EBF...
by Bob Allen | Jul 24, 2007 | News
The leader of Baptists in the central Asian republic of Azerbaijan has requested international support for a pastor arrested during a worship service May 20. Zaur Balayev, 44, is being held on charges of “violent resistance” of arrest. Authorities say...
