by Bob Allen | May 3, 2007 | News
The call for an “exodus” from public schools continues to gain momentum in the Southern Baptist Convention, according to sponsors of a resolution being proposed at this summer’s SBC annual meeting in San Antonio. Bruce Shortt, a representative of...
by Bob Allen | May 2, 2007 | News
Alabama’s Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has launched a “Let Justice Roll Down” initiative to bring a goodwill Baptist public witness to bear on issues like racism, poverty, equality of women, education and constitutional reform. Kicked off at last...
by Bob Allen | May 2, 2007 | News
Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page suggested an activist group pressing the denomination to confront the problem of sexual abuse by clergy may have a hidden agenda of setting up the nation’s largest Protestant body for lawsuits. “We believe...
by Bob Allen | May 1, 2007 | News
Along with education and religion, art is one of three ways to get people to reflect and change consciousness about moral and social issues, author and advocate for abolishing the death penalty Sister Helen Prejean told Belmont University students and faculty Monday....
by Bob Allen | Apr 27, 2007 | News
Viewers who missed Wednesday’s broadcast of Bill Moyers’ “Buying the War” can still tune in on the PBS Web site. Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics called it “a must-watch for Christians who care about peace and justice...
by Bob Allen | Apr 27, 2007 | News
The Southern Poverty Law Center criticized the Southern Baptist Convention for electing a second vice president last June whose name appears on a “Declaration of Support for James Kopp,” a man convicted of killing a doctor because he provided abortions....
