by Bob Allen | Aug 23, 2006 | News
A small-town Baptist church fight snowballed into an international news story after deacons fired an 81-year-old woman as a Sunday school teacher, purportedly because of her gender. After receiving a letter from First Baptist Church in Watertown, N.Y., that cited a...
by Bob Allen | Aug 22, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president says a new study about women in ministry raises questions about the credibility of moderates who claim women’s ordination is a wedge issue separating them from fundamentalists in charge of the Southern Baptist Convention....
by Bob Allen | Aug 21, 2006 | News
At a time of the year when many parents are beginning to send their children back to school, homeschool mother Gena Suarez is doing all she can to convince parents to keep them at home. Suarez, who with her husband, Paul, publishes The Old Schoolhouse Magazine,...
by Bob Allen | Aug 18, 2006 | News
Five days after praying with Israel’s prime minister for Hezbollah’s defeat, American religious broadcaster Pat Robertson on Monday declared that a U.N.-brokered cease fire rendered the bloody month-long conflict worthless. Back from a solidarity visit to...
by Bob Allen | Aug 18, 2006 | News
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship cried foul over two news stories in Baptist Press questioning the way the moderate breakaway group counts churches and criticizing CBF-supported theology schools. One Friday story in the Southern Baptist Convention news service...
by Bob Allen | Aug 17, 2006 | News
Two years after receiving credit for energizing a voting bloc important to the re-election of President George W. Bush, leaders of the Religious Right are now turning attention to helping Republicans retain control of Congress. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family...
