by Bob Allen | Feb 16, 2004 | News
Anticipation is mounting as a vote on severing ties between the Southern Baptist Convention and Baptist World Alliance draws near. An SBC Executive Committee vote, scheduled Tuesday afternoon, would be a major step toward ending the SBC’s 99-year-old ties with...
by Bob Allen | Feb 13, 2004 | News
A retired physician from Florida is staging a one-man protest of the Southern Baptist Convention’s expected withdrawal from the Baptist World Alliance by fasting and marching around SBC headquarters carrying a cross made out of grapevines harvested from his...
by Bob Allen | Feb 13, 2004 | News
LifeWay Christian Resources has withdrawn promotional materials quoting a Texas Baptist leader as endorsing this summer’s Asian-themed “Rickshaw Rally” Vacation Bible School curriculum–which some criticize as racist–reportedly at the...
by Bob Allen | Feb 12, 2004 | News
LifeWay Christian Resources has withdrawn promotional materials quoting a Texas Baptist leader as endorsing this summer’s Asian-themed “Rickshaw Rally” Vacation Bible School curriculum–which some criticize as racist–reportedly at the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 11, 2004 | News
The maelstrom surrounding Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” has just gotten uglier. MSNBC gossip columnist Jeannette Walls reported Tuesday that Mel Gibson said his wife might be damned to hell because she isn’t Catholic. A reporter for...
by Bob Allen and Chasity Ann Gunn | Feb 10, 2004 | News
Forty years after the first U.S. Surgeon General’s report linking tobacco to lung cancer, a large percentage of Americans are still smokers. When U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the watershed report in January 1964 that smoking causes cancer and other...
