by Bob Allen | May 12, 2006 | News
More than 200 signatures are on a Baptist Center for Ethics pastoral letter supporting public education issued three weeks ago. The Nashville, Tenn.,-based BCE issued the letter with 56 original signatures April 21. Other pastors, church staff members, convention and...
by Bob Allen | May 11, 2006 | News
Two of the six Southern Baptist Convention seminaries have joined as sponsors of a “Kingdom Education Summit” during next month’s SBC annual meeting, and a top administrator at one will speak, the meeting’s organizer announced Wednesday. The...
by Bob Allen | May 10, 2006 | News
A public school district in Missouri refused to change plans to sponsor Monday’s high school lecture and visit to a middle school by a creationist lecturer despite warnings by a church-state watchdog group that it violated the Constitution. Americans United for...
by Bob Allen | May 10, 2006 | News
The Tennessee Baptist Convention on Tuesday authorized a special committee to use any means necessary, including a lawsuit, to resolve a leadership dispute with Belmont University. Earlier in a specially called convention meeting at Two Rivers Baptist Church in...
by Bob Allen | May 9, 2006 | News
Northwest Arkansas pastor Ronnie Floyd will be nominated as president of the Southern Baptist Convention next month in Greensboro, N.C. Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., announced Sunday he planned to nominate Floyd, senior pastor of the...