Lebanese Baptists Reach Out to Iraqi Refugees

After sheltering about 800 people left homeless by last summer’s Israeli bombing raids of Lebanon, Baptists there are now working on plans to help Iraqi refugees who have fled to neighboring Syria. According to the British newspaper The Baptist Times, Nabil...

Seminary First Lady Compares Pill to Abortion

The wife of a Southern Baptist seminary president says women who oppose abortion should think twice before using birth control pills. Dorothy Patterson, professor of theology in woman’s studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and wife of President...

SBC Executive Committee to Discuss SNAP Requests

Members of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee were scheduled to discuss the denomination’s response to sexual abuse by clergy in a work group session this morning. A proposed agenda item for a 9:30 a.m. meeting of the bylaws work group is...