by Bob Allen | Aug 23, 2007 | News
A well-known moral activist and former Baptist leader pleaded guilty on Wednesday to six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution in Salisbury, N.C. Coy Privette, 74, could have his criminal record expunged if he completes 48 hours of community service and serves a...
by Bob Allen | Aug 22, 2007 | News
A former Southern Baptist Convention leader and Louisiana College alumnus criticized his alma mater for naming its planned law school after a “conservative resurgence” co-founder and retired Texas judge. Wilmer C. Fields, a 1943 Louisiana College graduate...
by Bob Allen | Aug 21, 2007 | News
A former Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary student was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing several teenage boys he mentored while a volunteer youth worker at a Southern Baptist church in North Carolina Meanwhile, a...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 20, 2007 | News
Two prominent Baptist ministers have come under fire in the last two weeks at large meetings of congregants upset over leadership style and financial management. Both pastors–one a conservative Southern Baptist Convention leader and the other a progressive...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 17, 2007 | News
Louisiana College, a school affiliated with the Louisiana Baptist Convention, announced on Aug. 16 its plans to start a new law school to be named after Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler. The school, which will be called the “Judge Paul Pressler School of...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 16, 2007 | News
The religious liberty watchdog organization Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU) filed a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service on Aug. 14 charging that the Rev. Wiley Drake improperly used church letterhead to endorse a presidential...
