by Bob Allen | Oct 26, 2005 | News
Baptists have long viewed drinking as a sin–publicly if not always in private. But a new study suggests ministers of the denomination are not of one mind when it comes to moderate consumption of alcohol. Fifty-three percent of North Carolina Baptist pastors...
by Bob Allen | Oct 26, 2005 | News
Baptist Press on Tuesday devoted a 1,770-word tribute to Rosa Parks, a black Christian woman credited with starting the civil rights movement in 1955. Commenting on her death at age 92, several Southern Baptist leaders praised Parks as a courageous woman who changed a...
by Bob Allen | Oct 25, 2005 | News
The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon James Dobson–and perhaps other evangelical leaders–to ask whether they received private assurances that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would vote to end legalized abortion, the committee’s...
by Bob Allen | Oct 25, 2005 | News
A Baptist association in South Carolina averted a public battle over gay marriage when its executive committee reversed an earlier recommendation to remove a church whose pastor created controversy by testifying before legislators opposing a constitutional amendment...
by Bob Allen | Oct 24, 2005 | News
The “Christian Exodus” has begun, albeit slowly, with a handful of families moving to South Carolina in hopes of leading thousands of other evangelicals to relocate and establish what founders envision as a “constitutionally limited government...
by Bob Allen | Oct 21, 2005 | News
An African-American pastor who brought aid to a Red Cross shelter in Atlanta says he was rejected because, unlike the Southern Baptist Convention, his church didn’t have exclusive rights to serve food. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pastor Timothy McDonald...
