by Bob Allen | May 7, 2008 | News
The House of Representatives this week takes up a spending bill analysts say would bring the total cost of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since Sept. 11, 2001, to at least $875 billion. Last week President Bush asked lawmakers for $70 billion to fund...
by Bob Allen | May 7, 2008 | News
Baptists have joined government and charitable groups working to relieve human suffering in the aftermath of Saturday’s devastating cyclone in Myanmar. Myanmar’s government said Tuesday more than 22,000 people were killed when the Category 3 storm slammed...
by Bob Allen | May 6, 2008 | News
United Methodists would have changed church rules calling homosexuality “incompatible with Christian teaching” this year had it not been for delegates from overseas, a conservative activist claims. Mark Tooley, director of the United Methodist committee of...
by Bob Allen | May 5, 2008 | News
A prominent Southern Baptist church in Nashville, Tenn., narrowly voted to retain 71 members in what would have been one of the largest church-member expulsions in recent history of the Baptist faith. A total of 1,000 votes were counted in a referendum on membership...
by Bob Allen | May 2, 2008 | News
A Religious Right spokesman with ties to the Southern Baptist Convention says he plans to counsel pastors to “cross the line” in telling church members how they should vote in the upcoming presidential election. Kenyn Cureton, vice president for church...
by Bob Allen | May 1, 2008 | News
A multi-year effort to turn the United Methodist Church to the right on controversial issues like homosexuality suffered a setback at General Conference meetings being held this week in Fort Worth, Texas. Early in the 10-day meeting of the top legislative body for...
