by Bob Allen | Mar 3, 2008 | News
A Southern Baptist leader lecturing at Criswell College used a gutter word to describe a Jewish U.S. senator. During the Jan. 29-31 Criswell Theological Lectures at the Dallas school, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics &...
by Brittani Hamm | Feb 29, 2008 | News
WASHINGTON–The United Methodist Church’s social policy office is circulating a petition that tells President Bush, a fellow church member, that torture is immoral and ineffective. The petition cites the Methodists’ Book of Discipline, which says,...
by Bob Allen | Feb 29, 2008 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention will have a hard time addressing either the problem of sexual abuse by clergy or domestic violence as long as its leaders persist in the theological view that women are subject to men, a victims’ advocate says. “I feel the...
by Bob Allen | Feb 29, 2008 | News
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether a speech last summer by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to a United Church of Christ national meeting violated rules for tax-exempt charities against partisan campaigning. The IRS notified...
by Brian Kaylor | Feb 28, 2008 | News
A Southern Baptist official who has been a frequent critic of the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant inaccurately attacked the Celebration and those present for not focusing on evangelism. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics...
by Bob Allen | Feb 28, 2008 | News
A Missouri legislator and pastor’s wife who appears in a Baptist Center for Ethics DVD about faith and politics is running for Congress. Two-term Missouri State Representative Judy Baker announced Monday she is seeking the 9th Congressional District stretching...
