by Bob Allen | Jun 20, 2007 | News
A Christian Web site criticized a Southern Baptist mega-church’s enshrining of cheerleading and beauty-pageant memorabilia to honor the senior pastor’s wife as an example of modern-day idolatry. “How do you build a ‘Cult of Personality’...
by Bob Allen | Jun 19, 2007 | News
PBS officials defended the decision to air a documentary on Thomas Jefferson’s metaphor of a “wall” of separation between church and state against accusations the film is a propaganda tool for the Christian Right. In a June 8 blog cross-posted at...
by Bob Allen | Jun 15, 2007 | News
Starting this fall Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will offer a program in Christian homemaking, the seminary’s president said Tuesday. “We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word...
by Bob Allen | Jun 14, 2007 | News
President Bush thanked Southern Baptists for their support of two justices he appointed to the United States Supreme Court, swing votes in a recent decision upholding a federal ban on partial-birth abortion. “I appreciate the fact that Southern Baptists...
by Bob Allen | Jun 14, 2007 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant body, passed a resolution Wednesday questioning whether human activity contributes significantly to global warming and urging governments to weigh environmental concerns with economics when setting...
