by Bob Allen | Dec 1, 2005 | News
A Washington-based group on Monday filed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Focus on the Family should lose its tax-exempt status, because its founder, James Dobson, endorsed candidates for office. Citizens for Responsibility and...
by Bob Allen | Dec 1, 2005 | News
Christians need to recover an “authentic biblical patriarchy” to save families from encroaching feminism, a Southern Baptist theologian argued before the Evangelical Theological Society in mid-November. Russell Moore, theology dean and academic vice...
by Bob Allen | Nov 30, 2005 | News
End-times theology and support for Israel have undermined the Christian right’s founding vision of bringing about social change through political involvement, says a veteran leader of a controversial movement known as Christian Reconstructionism. Popularized in...
by Bob Allen | Nov 29, 2005 | News
Baptists in Great Britain next year will observe a national day of prayer for children, prompted by news that the number of those 12 and under in Baptist churches had declined by 30,000 during the last two years. “We need to get on our knees about these issues...
by Bob Allen | Nov 29, 2005 | News
The man convicted of plotting the 2002 murders of three Southern Baptist missionaries was executed Sunday by firing squad in Yemen. Ali Al-Jarallah, convicted of planning the attack on a Baptist mission hospital in Jibla, Yemen, on Dec. 30, 2002, was blindfolded and...
by Bob Allen | Nov 29, 2005 | News
Australia’s Baptist leaders have issued a statement of concern over possible negative impact of federal workplace reforms now before Australia’s parliament. Billed as “a simpler, fairer national workplace relations system for Australia,” the...
