by Bob Allen | Oct 20, 2006 | News
An eccentric and controversial evangelist has claimed that House Speaker Dennis Hastert broke a promise to resign within seven days after they met and prayed together Oct. 10 at the speaker’s home. The Associated Press reported last week that Houston evangelist...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist Convention official criticized the White House for putting an openly gay physician in charge of the United States policy to combat global AIDS. “I think it’s a tragedy to have a sodomite living with another man and being the AIDS...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2006 | News
Resolutions calling for an “exit strategy” from public schools will be submitted at every state and regional convention in the continental United States this fall, advocates of the “exodus” movement announced Wednesday. Members of a Southern...
by Bob Allen | Oct 18, 2006 | News
An unofficial dialogue between conservative Catholics and evangelicals has issued a new paper outlining consensus on building a “culture of life.” In addition to the usual fare of opposing abortion, assisted suicide and stem-cell research that destroys...
by Bob Allen | Oct 18, 2006 | News
There’s an immediate satisfaction in knowing you’ve helped a poor person in a crisis, said a Baptist ethicist, but nobody can do that every day. “That’s why I think development is even more exciting than relief,” said Joe Haag of the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 17, 2006 | News
Speakers including Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Monday that scandals in Washington should not suppress “values voters” from going to the polls Nov. 7. “Yes, what Mark Foley did was wrong, but it is still important to go to the polls...