by Bob Allen | Jul 14, 2006 | News
A throwaway line at last month’s Baptist Center for Ethics 15th anniversary luncheon earned the attention of Fox News and rebuttal on a conservative Web site. In his June 22 keynote address at the Atlanta meeting, Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National...
by Bob Allen | Jul 12, 2006 | News
Gary Percesepe is leaving after two years as coordinating director of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America to become dean of the McMaster School for Advancing Humanity at Defiance College. BPFNA President Leslie Withers announced Percesepe’s...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 11, 2006 | News
Michael Moore updated supporters July 7 on his upcoming film, “Sicko,” which examines America’s health-care industry. Moore said he’s spent most of 2006 shooting the movie and has gotten about 75 percent of it in the can. The Weinstein Co. will...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 10, 2006 | News
The Baptist General Convention of Missouri was approved as a member of the Baptist World Alliance at the BWA annual gathering and General Council meeting, held July 3-8 in Mexico City. The membership committee recommended the BGCM’s acceptance and the General...
by Bob Allen | Jul 10, 2006 | News
The American Family Association is reporting that the National Education Association has voted to endorse gay marriage, while officials with the teacher union maintain the group has no position on the subject and accuse the religious right of trying to create unrest...
by Bob Allen | Jul 7, 2006 | News
More than a year after he was acquitted on charges of accounting fraud, former HealthSouth CEO turned religious broadcaster Richard Scrushy was convicted last week of a bribery scheme along with a former governor of Alabama. A federal jury in Montgomery, Ala.,...
