by Bob Allen | Jul 16, 2004 | News
A call to unify Baptists by reciting the Apostles’ Creed at a global gathering next year is proving divisive for some. “Fundamentalists are not the only creedalists within the Baptist camp,” Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists wrote in a...
by Bob Allen | Jul 16, 2004 | News
A year and a day after his unanimous election to head American Baptists’ international mission enterprise, Hector M. Cortez found himself out of a job. American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., Board of International Ministries voted June 25 in executive session to...
by Bob Allen | Jul 14, 2004 | News
Touted as “perhaps the best outreach opportunity in 2000 years,” Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” had relatively little lasting impact on people’s religious beliefs or practice, according to a Barna survey. The survey by...
by Bob Allen | Jul 13, 2004 | News
A crowd reported at more than 10,000 showed up Sunday night for a simulcast television program at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn., aimed at swaying debate over a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The U.S. Senate on...
by Bob Allen | Jul 12, 2004 | News
Males as young as 17 should already be thinking about marriage, a Southern Baptist leader said on a recent Campus Crusade for Christ radio program, calling it a “sin” for adults to purposely postpone getting hitched. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary...
by Bob Allen | Jul 9, 2004 | News
The average Nashvillian throws away a ton of garbage every year. Environmental activist John van der Harst throws away a pound. Van der Harst is the subject of a documentary film by Cliff Vaughn, culture editor for EthicsDaily.com. “Immaterial John” opened...
