by Bob Allen | Sep 14, 2005 | News
Christianity’s role in the Holocaust should be a cautionary tale for the church today, panelists and audience members said Tuesday at a screening of a new documentary titled “Theologians Under Hitler.” “Being on the morally right side of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 13, 2005 | News
Texas Gov. Rick Perry remained mum after sharing the podium at two get-out-the-vote rallies with a black Southern Baptist preacher who wondered if God sent Hurricane Katrina “to purify our nation.” “I’m raising the question,” Dwight...
by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2005 | News
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the southeastern United States cut two ways. It rallied Americans in showings of compassion and national unity rivaling, if not surpassing, those following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet it also exposed the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 9, 2005 | News
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean told a black Baptist group meeting in Miami that race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina. Speaking Wednesday to the National Baptist Convention of America, Dean, who ran for president in 2004, said...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 9, 2005 | News
Religious fundamentalists from all three major faiths argue that Hurricane Katrina’s destruction on the southern coast of the United States was part of God’s punishment on America. While reasons for God’s retribution sometimes vary, the rhetoric of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 9, 2005 | News
The president of the largest African-American Baptist organization called on church members to hold national leaders accountable for “preventable consequences” of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. William J. Shaw, president of the National Baptist...
