by Bob Allen | Nov 5, 2007 | News
Instead of using God as a political wedge, American Christians ought to pray to be used by God, says Tim Alexander, a Church of Christ minister in Nashville, Tenn. “I think churches have made the bargain of Esau,” Alexander says in “Golden Rule...
by Bob Allen | Nov 5, 2007 | News
A state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has adopted a policy for reporting sexual abuse by clergy that a victim advocate hopes will become a model for other Baptist bodies. The plan, approved last month by the Coordinating Council of the Alabama Cooperative Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Nov 2, 2007 | News
Members of a controversial Baptist church said they were undeterred after a federal jury ordered them to pay nearly $11 million for protesting at the funeral of a marine killed in Iraq, claiming publicity from the trial will help them to spread their message that God...
by Bob Allen | Nov 2, 2007 | News
Vision America founder Rick Scarborough is defending presidential candidate Mike Huckabee against those who criticize him for sitting out the Southern Baptist Convention’s theological wars. In a WorldNetDaily column, Scarborough said some people question...
by Bob Allen | Nov 1, 2007 | News
The Old Testament story of Jonah is more than a fairy tale about a man being swallowed by a whale, and even more than an evangelical call to preach the gospel to those in foreign lands, but instead a model for reconciliation between the haves and the have-nots, says a...
by Bob Allen | Oct 31, 2007 | News
The American Bar Association has called for a nationwide moratorium on executions, citing a three-year study of state death-penalty systems that found unfairness and other flaws. “After carefully studying the way states across the spectrum handle executions, it...
