by Bob Allen | Jun 27, 2007 | News
This week in Washington, Emmanuel McCall will become the first African-American to preside over the General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Being first is nothing new for McCall, 71, a pioneer in black-church relations among Baptists in the South, but...
by Bob Allen | Jun 27, 2007 | News
The anti-poverty coalition Micah Challenge has called on Britain’s new prime minister to take a stand to stamp out global poverty. Former Chancellor Gordon Brown takes over today as 52nd prime minister of the United Kingdom. His predecessor, Tony Blair, recently...
by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2007 | News
The Baptist General Convention of Texas and Buckner International have launched a new partnership working with local churches in Texas and beyond to help undocumented immigrants file papers to become U.S. citizens. Announced Tuesday at the BGCT-affiliated Hispanic...
by Bob Allen | Jun 25, 2007 | News
Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told a religious gathering over the weekend the Christian Right has “hijacked” faith to drive Americans apart and called for a renewed “politics of conscience” that bears moral witness to issues...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 25, 2007 | News
The Baptist Center for Ethics is offering a free resource to support Bible studies and sermons from Luke 4 to help prepare churches for next year’s New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta. Excerpts from a developing “Baptists’ Bible...
by Bob Allen | Jun 22, 2007 | News
America’s faith community has a broader values agenda than the small number of hot-button issues promoted by the Religious Right, and the nation is less divided between blue and red states than the media suggest, according to a new online database that maps...
