by Bob Allen | Oct 10, 2006 | News
The Mark Foley affair threatens an unholy alliance between the Religious Right and gay Republicans that helped re-elect President Bush in 2004. Religious conservatives blamed the former Republican congressman’s long-rumored but just-confirmed homosexuality for...
by Bob Allen | Oct 9, 2006 | News
Bad theology concerning the roles of men and women may contribute to domestic abuse, says a new study by the Church of England. “Domestic abuse is not simply an isolated series of events between a perpetrator and a victim but reflects the wider factors...
by Bob Allen | Oct 6, 2006 | News
Homeschool activists are raising alarm about a controversy in Germany involving church, state and school they fear could have long-term repercussions affecting parents’ rights to educate their children in the United States. In September the European Court of...
by Bob Allen | Oct 5, 2006 | News
Criticism of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley has been muted from the Religious Right, amid concern the scandal might hinder recent efforts to get out the Christian vote for Republican candidates in midterm elections Nov. 7. Gary Bauer of American Values said...
by Bob Allen | Oct 4, 2006 | News
For many Baptists, the front line of attacking global poverty is rapid response to natural and manmade disasters. “All of us are drawn to the relief aid,” Paul Montacute, director of Baptist World Aid, says in a new global-poverty resource produced by the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 4, 2006 | News
The Tennessee Baptist Convention has sued Belmont University under a 1951 agreement that the school would return gifts from the TBC–an estimated $58 million to date–should the state’s Baptists ever lose the right to elect Belmont’s board of...
