by Bob Allen | Jan 16, 2007 | News
A Bellevue Baptist Church committee investigating a longtime staff member accused of molestation reported “significant progress” but provided few details in an interim report. In a Jan. 7 report posted on the Web site of the suburban Memphis mega-church,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 16, 2007 | News
In what one homeschool-advocacy group called “one of the biggest homeschool stories to hit mainstream media,” PBS’ “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly” last week carried an episode profiling the “exodus” movement. “The...
by Bob Allen | Jan 15, 2007 | News
Televangelist Pat Robertson, who in 2004 claimed he warned President Bush there would be casualties in the war in Iraq, said Thursday he doubts there is much the president can do to drum up support for his recent decision to send 21,000 more troops. “I was...
by Bob Allen | Jan 12, 2007 | News
Belmont University has sent subpoenas to Tennessee Baptist Convention churches asking about gifts made to the Cooperative Program between 1951 and 2005 and whether they knew about or relied on a 1951 document at the center of a legal dispute when they gave them. Marty...
by Bob Allen | Jan 11, 2007 | News
Baptist leaders contacted Thursday by EthicsDaily.com disagreed with President Bush’s plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq. Baptist leaders contacted Thursday by EthicsDaily.com disagreed with President Bush’s plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq....
by Bob Allen | Jan 10, 2007 | News
First Baptist Church of Raytown, Mo., held a members-only meeting Sunday night to discuss details of a recently settled lawsuit involving the pastor’s son, who fathered an out-of-wedlock child while serving on the church staff in 2004. On Dec. 6 a circuit court...