by Bob Allen | May 9, 2007 | News
Two Southern Baptist leaders dismissed as ludicrous charges by liberals that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has been taken over by theocrats. “I am an elected official in the Southern Baptist Convention,” Richard Land, president of the...
by Bob Allen | May 8, 2007 | News
A controversial Baylor University professor has resigned as president of the Evangelical Theological Society, after receiving full communion in the Roman Catholic Church. Francis Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies at the Baptist-affiliated...
by Bob Allen | May 8, 2007 | News
Evangelical leaders in Washington Monday unveiled an advertising and letter-writing campaign aimed at building a national, ecumenical grassroots organization calling for comprehensive immigration reform consistent with biblical values. “We are coming together...
by Bob Allen | May 7, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist Convention officer denied endorsing a statement supporting a man convicted of killing a doctor because he provided abortions. That was after Web sites reported the official’s name appeared on a petition associated with a group labeled domestic...
by Bob Allen | May 4, 2007 | News
Growing up as a privileged white daughter of the South, “Dead Man Walking” author Sister Helen Prejean never questioned the need for a death penalty to protect society from dangerous criminals. But that was before her “awakening to justice,”...
by Bob Allen | May 3, 2007 | News
Tennessee’s Democratic governor allowed a 90-day moratorium on the death penalty to expire Wednesday, clearing the way for next week’s scheduled execution of death-row inmate Philip Workman. Gov. Phil Bredesen ordered a halt to carrying out the death...
