by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2008 | News
People sitting in church pews with knowledge about complicated social issues but who use it only to enrich themselves are a wasted resource for the Kingdom of God, a former tax lawyer turned fair-tax activist told a Baptist Center for Ethics audience last week....
by Bob Allen | Jun 25, 2008 | News
After four months on the sidelines since endorsing Mike Huckabee for president in February, Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson came out swinging in a special radio broadcast accusing presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama of distorting the Bible and...
by Bob Allen | Jun 24, 2008 | News
An American Baptist leader encouraged the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to become “more Baptist” by standing alongside the “resistance and resolve” of minorities.” To live with the minority experience is to live with the fear of being...
by Bob Allen | Jun 24, 2008 | News
Three months after Azerbaijan, under international pressure, released a Baptist pastor imprisoned on questionable grounds, a second Baptist church leader in the same small village has been jailed on what family members claim are trumped-up charges of illegal...
by Bob Allen | Jun 20, 2008 | News
Churches have often misused and misunderstood the Bible verse that says “render unto Caesar” as an excuse for tolerating unjust taxes that oppress the poor, a speaker at a Baptist Center for Ethics luncheon said Thursday. “My job today is to...
by Bob Allen | Jun 20, 2008 | News
Conversion should not be a hidden agenda in interfaith friendships between Baptists and Jews, but that does not mean Christians cannot talk about Jesus, said two panelists at a screening of a new Baptist Center for Ethics DVD titled “Good Will for the Common...
