by Bob Allen | Apr 17, 2007 | News
Audiences of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” had the best knowledge of current events, while Fox News viewers had no more knowledge than the average American, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Sunday. The...
by Bob Allen | Apr 16, 2007 | News
Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page said in an interview aired Friday on network television the nation’s largest Protestant organization is looking into creating a national registry of clergy sex offenders. Page and other SBC leaders have so far...
by Bob Allen | Apr 16, 2007 | News
Virginia Baptists pitched in for the massive task of counseling students, faculty and families in the wake of Monday’s deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. The Baptist General Association of Virginia sent two crisis-care counselors to the Blacksburg campus,...
by Bob Allen | Apr 13, 2007 | News
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to allow federal funding of research using embryonic stem cells. President Bush said he would veto the bill, just as he did in July. Nineteen Republicans joined 44 Democrats and independents supporting the bill, which...
by Bob Allen | Apr 13, 2007 | News
Two reform-minded Southern Baptist pastors said Thursday they plan to ask the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to get tougher on the problem of clergy sexual abuse. Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Okla., plans to make a motion...
