by Bob Allen | Feb 27, 2008 | News
Americans are leaving Baptist churches at nearly twice the rate that others are joining them, according to details of a study released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey portrayed American religion in flux, with 44...
by Bob Allen | Feb 26, 2008 | News
A Texas magazine is reporting that a former Baptist pastor accused of murdering his wife and staging it to look like she committed suicide has a long trail of allegations of sexual abuse. A 9,500-word cover story in the March 2008 Texas Monthly includes allegations...
by Bob Allen | Feb 25, 2008 | News
A judge in Jacksonville, Fla., has said a second lawsuit can move forward accusing a Baptist mega-church in the city of harboring a longtime former pastor now alleged to have been a pedophile. In all seven lawsuits have been filed against Trinity Baptist Church by...
by Bob Allen | Feb 22, 2008 | News
A self-help group for victims of clergy sexual abuse is asking the head of a Southern Baptist seminary to apologize for calling their organization “evil-doers.” The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests also requested a face-to-face meeting with...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 21, 2008 | News
Four videos on the relationship between public schools and faith communities are now available at EthicsDaily.com. The four videos, each under three minutes, compile remarks made at a two-day conference in Memphis titled “Educators and Clergy: Working Together...
by Bob Allen | Feb 20, 2008 | News
The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t yet ready to respond to a motion referred from last year’s convention calling for a feasibility study of a denomination-wide database of clergy sex offenders, a work group studying the...
