by Bob Allen | Apr 18, 2008 | News
Church members across America will hear sermons this Sunday on climate change on Earth Day Sunday, which is celebrated in houses of worship on the weekend closest to Earth Day on April 22. Each year the National Council of Churches’ Eco-Justice Working Group...
by Bob Allen | Apr 17, 2008 | News
A fragmented United States Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday that a three-drug protocol most commonly used for lethal injections does not violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Just two justices–Anthony Kennedy and Samuel...
by Bob Allen | Apr 17, 2008 | News
Virginia Tech cancelled classes Wednesday for a Day of Remembrance to honor 32 students and faculty killed a year ago in the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.The 32 flags representing each victim that flew outside Blacksburg Baptist Church in the days...
by Bob Allen | Apr 16, 2008 | News
There’s a valuable teaching tool for pastors and religious educators willing to take a little political risk: Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” say two congregational leaders who have shown the film in Baptist churches.Wieuca Road Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Apr 16, 2008 | News
Surging food prices could push 100 million deeper into poverty, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Sunday at the close of the International Money Fund-World Bank spring meetings in Washington. “Based on a very rough analysis, we estimate that a doubling...
by Bob Allen | Apr 15, 2008 | News
CNN’s Campbell Brown correctly identified “True Love Waits” as an abstinence program in Sunday’s Compassion Forum with the Democratic presidential candidates focusing on faith issues. But she failed to challenge the Southern Baptist Convention...
