by Bob Allen | Jun 12, 2008 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday passed a resolution urging political involvement by churches. “Christians should seek to apply their spiritual and moral values to the political process,” said a resolution on “political engagement”...
by Bob Allen | Jun 11, 2008 | News
Georgia mega-church pastor Johnny Hunt won a surprise first-ballot election as next president of the Southern Baptist Convention in the most wide-open race in many years. This year’s presidential race featured six candidates announced prior to the convention...
by Bob Allen | Jun 11, 2008 | News
Local churches, and not the Southern Baptist Convention, must take responsibility for ridding the denomination of sexual predators, the head of the SBC Executive Committee said Tuesday. “Sexual predators must be stopped,” Executive Committee President...
by Bob Allen | Jun 10, 2008 | News
A Texas Baptist church and its pastor have reportedly settled a lawsuit with a woman who claimed the minister molested, raped and got her pregnant when she was a minor. The Denton Record-Chronicle reported Sunday that Debbie Vasquez, 47, dropped a lawsuit she filed in...
by Bob Allen | Jun 10, 2008 | News
A former Southern Baptist Convention president warned of denominational decline in a national gathering of pastors. “We have reached a place that our spiritual forefathers feared,” Jimmy Draper, former head of LifeWay Christian Resources, said Monday at...
by Bob Allen | Jun 9, 2008 | News
Senators on Friday blocked a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions linked to global warming. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Joseph Lieberman, ID-Conn, fell short of a required three-fifths majority to...
