by Bob Allen | Nov 28, 2005 | News
The battle over Wal-Mart’s image is turning to pulpits. According to the Los Angeles Times, the company is recruiting sympathetic clergy to speak out against a documentary film being shown in churches that is critical of the nation’s largest retailer. A...
by Bob Allen | Nov 23, 2005 | News
Officials at Baptist-affiliated William Carey College aren’t commenting about allegations by four former students expelled for using a college-owned generator after Hurricane Katrina claiming they were singled out for punishment because they are black. According...
by Bob Allen | Nov 22, 2005 | News
The House sponsor of Georgia’s controversial voter ID bill has fired back at a newspaper report implying race was part of her rationale. State Rep. Sue Burmeister, R-Augusta, sponsored the House version of a state law requiring voters at polling places to...
by American Baptist News Service | Nov 22, 2005 | News
GREEN LAKE, Wis. (American Baptist News Service)—The General Board of the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., on Friday voted in favor of a region-sponsored petition from cooperating churches asking the denomination to take a stronger stand against homosexuality and...
by Bob Allen | Nov 21, 2005 | News
A Baptist congressman is among Democrats pressuring the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. On Thursday Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated Vietnam veteran and military hawk, stunned colleagues when he called for removing...
by Bob Allen | Nov 18, 2005 | News
A vaccine against cervical cancer, with potential to save the lives of 3,700 women in the United States and 250,000 worldwide each year, could become available as early as next year. It worries conservative Christian groups, however, who fear it might send an...
