by Bob Allen | Nov 17, 2005 | News
National leaders of 21 Christian churches and church-related agencies on Monday signed a letter encouraging Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her active engagement in peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians. On Tuesday Rice, on her fourth visit to Israel...
by Bob Allen | Nov 16, 2005 | News
Not surprisingly, former President Jimmy Carter is finding few fans of his latest book among leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. In Our Endangered Values, his 20th book, the 39th president of the United States bemoans changes in the nation’s largest...
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2005 | News
A popular Web site that argues America has forsaken its Christian roots contains historical inaccuracies and distortions of quotations from the Founding Fathers, two First Amendment scholars contend in an editorial in the most recent Journal of Church and State....
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2005 | News
Three-time Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, whose 1979 election sparked a revolutionary leadership change in America’s largest Protestant denomination, died early Tuesday of complications from cancer. Rogers, 74, was hospitalized Nov. 3....
by Bob Allen | Nov 14, 2005 | News
To live together, various faith communities must learn to celebrate what they share in common instead of just focusing on differences, a moderate Baptist leader told an interfaith gathering last month in Atlanta. Daniel Vestal, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Nov 14, 2005 | News
The strongest opposition in the United States to President Bush’s “roadmap for peace” in Israel comes, ironically, from some of his strongest supporters–the religious right. Charles Kimball, author of When Religion Becomes Evil, said he first...