by Bob Allen | Jul 24, 2007 | News
A former Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting a youth in his church may face additional charges, according to media reports in Memphis, Tenn. The Commercial Appeal reported last week that detectives are investigating possible additional sex charges against...
by Bob Allen | Jul 23, 2007 | News
A longtime champion of family values once nominated as chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral-concerns agency surprised citizens of North Carolina with his arrest last week on multiple charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. “Hell has...
by Bob Allen | Jul 20, 2007 | News
Christian Right leaders who applauded Louisiana Republican David Vitter’s election to the United States Senate as a major win for family values are standing by their man caught in a sex scandal that threatens his political future. Last week Vitter, 46, confessed...
by Bob Allen | Jul 19, 2007 | News
U.S. Senator John McCain, who has had problems winning over religious conservatives in his run for the GOP presidential nomination, showed up Tuesday at a meeting of Christian Zionists to declare himself a Christian and “proudly pro-Israel.” McCain, an...
by Bob Allen | Jul 18, 2007 | News
A Baptist leader said Tuesday that the United States’ farm policy is unfair to African-American farmers and disadvantaged farmers in Africa, the Caribbean and the developing world. Earl Trent, executive director of missions for the Progressive National Baptist...