by Bob Allen | Apr 18, 2005 | News
The Louisiana Baptist Convention’s new executive director has asked trustees of the Baptist Message to consider returning the newspaper, which has operated under a separate board since 1963, to direct control of the convention’s 98-member executive board....
by Bob Allen | Apr 15, 2005 | News
A man once known for barnstorming the country trying to sell dealerships for a machine he claimed would make free electricity from air is now offering churches grants up to $50 million to help bring “Christian values” to America. In an introductory video...
by Bob Allen | Apr 15, 2005 | News
A proposed funding cap on “partners” of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship could jeopardize the survival of Associated Baptist Press, two leaders of the national news service said in a letter April 8. A CBF Partner Study Committee in February recommended...
by Bob Allen | Apr 14, 2005 | News
A Baptist church in east Tennessee drew media attention for displaying a sign implying the late Pope John Paul II is in hell. WATE-6 News in Knoxville on Monday reported on the marquee message outside Hilltop Baptist Church in Newport, Tenn. One side of the sign read:...
by Bob Allen | Apr 13, 2005 | News
Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, in a Monday broadcast decrying “activist” judges, compared the black-robed U.S. Supreme Court to the Ku Klux Klan. The guest on Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio show was Mark Levin, author of the bestseller...
by Bob Allen | Apr 13, 2005 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention turned around a four-year decline in baptisms during 2004, encouraging LifeWay Christian Resources President Jimmy Draper “that the denomination may be heading in the right direction.” Last summer Draper decried the downward...
