by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2007 | News
In 2005 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution urging churches to be on guard against homosexual influences in public schools. But a conservative Web site says the nation’s largest Protestant body might first want to get its own house in order by...
by Bob Allen | Jan 26, 2007 | News
Prominent leaders like Abraham Foxman and Alan Dershowitz don’t speak for the entire U.S. Jewish community in condemning former President Jimmy Carter for comparing Israeli occupation of the West Bank with South Africa’s system of apartheid. A New York...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Former Vice President Al Gore said he is “thrilled” that his documentary film on the perils of global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was honored with two Oscar nominations. The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Former North American Mission Board head Bob Reccord says he hasn’t read a new insider book alleging mishandling of donor money at the Southern Baptist Convention agency, but what he has heard about it leaves him “saddened and grieved.”...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Facing waning public and political support, President George W. Bush pleaded with a Democratic Congress to give his plan to escalate the war in Iraq a chance in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. “This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the...
by Bob Allen | Jan 23, 2007 | News
Bellevue Baptist Church has terminated a minister whose admission of sexual misconduct put the suburban Memphis mega-church in the center of a scandal that has received national attention. Bellevue’s personnel committee voted Sunday to dismiss Paul Williams,...
