by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist advocate of Christian schools says God will judge pastors who refuse to speak out on failures of public schools for fear of offending parishioners. Ed Gamble, who leads the Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools in Orlando, Fla., said in...
by Jan Resseger and Curtis Ramsey-Lucas | Aug 29, 2007 | Opinion
Our serious and ongoing concerns about the No Child Left Behind Act cause us to ask our legislators in Congress not to rush through a quick fix but instead to take the time to reauthorize NCLB with care. We believe it essential that members of Congress discern...
by Bob Allen | Aug 28, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president told a North Carolina newspaper that public schools are not neutral toward religion but rather hostile to people of faith. “In the public schools, you don’t just have neutrality, you have hostility toward organized...
by Bob Allen | Aug 6, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president who two years ago called for an evangelical Christian “exit strategy” from public schools now chides churches for neglecting to help parents make responsible decisions about their children’s education. On...
by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Jul 30, 2007 | Opinion
A year ago, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a resolution urging churches and parents “to investigate their public schools to determine, among other things, whether they are endangering children in their care by collaboration with homosexual...