by Bob Allen | Jan 11, 2006 | News
Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board are seeking removal of a fellow trustee, reportedly accusing him of “slander” and “gossip” in a weblog documenting internal politicking on the trustee board. Trustee...
by Bob Allen | Jan 10, 2006 | News
Religious leaders James Dobson and Jerry Falwell and political leader Sen. Rick Santorum sought to rally conservative Christians to support confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito in a “Justice Sunday III” telecast Sunday night. The rally was...
by Bob Allen | Jan 10, 2006 | News
A pastor arrested last week in a homosexual sting operation has resigned from his church and from leadership positions with the Oklahoma and Southern Baptist conventions. Lonnie Latham, 59, senior pastor of South Tulsa Baptist Church, was arrested late Tuesday for...
by Bob Allen | Jan 9, 2006 | News
African-American lawmakers entering Georgia’s 2006 legislative session Jan. 9 are poised for a battle to repeal a law passed last year requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. “I’m putting on the armor,” Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan told...
by Bob Allen | Jan 7, 2006 | News
Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral-concerns agency for a tumultuous 27 years spanning from the civil-rights movement of the 1960s to the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination in the 1980s, died Saturday after an apparent heart...
by Bob Allen | Jan 6, 2006 | News
Televangelist Pat Robertson said Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon–fighting for his life following a stroke–is being punished by God. Sharon, 77, suffered brain damage from a stroke and ensuing cerebral hemorrhage, Ha’aretz reported...
