by Bob Allen | Oct 24, 2007 | News
The law may describe acts of natural disaster beyond human control as “acts of God,” but that isn’t stopping finger pointing from the right and left for wildfires whipping across Southern California fanned by Santa Ana winds. The CBS program...
by Bob Allen | Oct 23, 2007 | News
Time was when a vacationing Baptist could drop in on any church in the South and pick up a copy of the same Sunday school quarterly used back home. Today, more churches have ceased shopping exclusively at the company store, turning to a variety of publishers and...
by Bob Allen | Oct 22, 2007 | News
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was the overwhelming favorite in a straw poll taken on site at Friday and Saturday’s Washington values voter summit, but Internet voting by supporters of Mitt Romney made the former Massachusetts governor the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2007 | News
The one-time director of hunger concerns for the Southern Baptist Convention said a downturn in giving to an annual hunger offering indicates the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has turned its back on the poor. “Southern Baptist fundamentalists...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2007 | News
Faith leaders called Thursday’s House of Representatives vote upholding President Bush’s veto of a children’s health insurance bill a defeat for America’s children and win for tobacco. The House of Representatives voted 273-156 to expand the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 18, 2007 | News
A European Baptist leader renewed calls to pressure Azerbaijan to release an imprisoned Baptist minister after a court rejected an appeal of his two-year prison sentence Oct. 3. Tony Peck, general secretary of the European Baptist Federation, wrote Mehriban Aliyeva,...
