Adelle M. Banks
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Posted by Adelle M. Banks 2 days 10 hours ago
Gay Americans are much less religious than the general U.S. population, and about 3-in-10 of them say they have felt unwelcome in a house of worship, a new study shows.The Pew Research Center’s study...
Posted by Adelle M. Banks 6 days 15 hours ago
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to stand with churches and families that drop ties with the Boy Scouts of America over its decision to allow openly gay Scouts, and urged the BSA to...
Posted by Adelle M. Banks 1 week 1 day ago
Fred Luter had a lot of firsts in the last year: first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention; first time chairing the denomination’s annual meeting, this week, in Houston; and recently,...
Posted by Adelle M. Banks 3 weeks 1 day ago
Now that Boy Scout delegates have taken their long-awaited vote and permitted openly gay Scouts, will there be a mass exodus by religious groups?It depends on who you ask.The Assemblies of God is...
Posted by Adelle M. Banks 4 weeks 6 days ago
Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as “un-American,” saying both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group...
Articles by Adelle M. Banks
I've been a religion reporter for more than a decade, and I still find that many
misunderstand my title—journalists included.
