by Brian Kaylor | Jan 16, 2012 | News
With one week before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, more than 150 conservative evangelical leaders gathered on a Texas ranch in the latest effort to find a political savior. At the close of the two-day private meeting, the group emerged Saturday...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 11, 2012 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy official is involved in behind-the-scenes efforts to defeat President Barack Obama and stop former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney from garnering the Republican presidential nomination. Richard Land, head of the...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 5, 2012 | News
With the help of conservative evangelicals, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum surged to a virtual first-place tie in Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa. Ending with a quarter of the vote and a mere eight votes behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 4, 2012 | News
As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich jumped to the front of the Republican presidential polls last month, he found several Southern Baptist leaders ready to support him despite his affairs and divorces. The treatment of Gingrich, who left his Southern Baptist...
by Brian Kaylor | Dec 28, 2011 | News
An organization fighting breast cancer said it was disappointed in the recall of Bibles whose sales were meant to fund breast cancer treatment and recovery. The recall by a Baptist publishing house stemmed from a link to Planned Parenthood. The Southern Baptist...
