by Bob Allen | Sep 11, 2008 | News
Church leaders in New Zealand have issued an open letter calling on all politicians to make reducing poverty a high priority during an election year. Leaders from Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Salvation Army churches joined in the appeal to...
by Bob Allen | Sep 10, 2008 | News
A Baptist state newspaper editor hopes leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention won’t take steps to rejoin the Baptist World Alliance. A motion at last summer’s SBC annual meeting asked the SBC Executive Committee to reconsider affiliation with the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 10, 2008 | News
Tip O’Neill’s famous quote that “all politics is local” is nowhere truer this year than in Alabama’s second congressional district, where both the Democratic and Republican candidates are deacons at the same Southern Baptist church. The...
by Bob Allen | Sep 9, 2008 | News
Taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for social programs because there are too many “sorry churches” that aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do, according to a city official in Jacksonville, Fla. During a recent debate about providing...
by Bob Allen | Sep 9, 2008 | News
Armed military conflict between Russia and Georgia has spilled over into a war of words between the two nations’ Baptists. Malkhaz Songulashvili, archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, has been outspoken about his country’s sense of...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 8, 2008 | News
A Southern Baptist leader credited with rejecting the demonization of Islam has a track record of promoting and offering derogatory statements about Muslims. Although Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty...
