by Bob Allen | Dec 7, 2005 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president told students in October that drinking alcohol can get them expelled from school and destroy their ministry, but he doesn’t believe the Bible teaches total abstinence. President Al Mohler of Southern Baptist Theological...
by Bob Allen | Dec 7, 2005 | News
An ecumenical group is calling on churches in the United States to sign an open letter and schedule prayer vigils seeking safe release of human rights workers being held hostage in Iraq. Christian Peacemaker Teams, an international group devoted to nonviolent...
by Bob Allen | Dec 6, 2005 | News
Members of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., gathered at noon Sunday for a somber Advent tradition remembering people who died violently during the last year. For the last nine years the church has closed the second Sunday of Advent, which features lighting...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 5, 2005 | News
“Munich” won’t arrive in theaters until Dec. 23, but Steven Spielberg’s historical drama/thriller is already catching media flak for its alleged approach. Various commentators and organizations have expressed concern over Spielberg’s...
by Bob Allen | Dec 5, 2005 | News
Nearly four in 10 Americans hold a negative view of Wal-Mart, and its public image is worse now than it was a year ago, according to poll released Thursday, encouraging groups seeking to organize workers and improve labor conditions inside the nation’s largest...
by Bob Allen | Dec 2, 2005 | News
Will Campbell–author, civil-rights activist and iconoclastic Baptist minister–denounced leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention as “soul molesters,” who have turned their back on Baptist principles like the separation of church and state, in...
