by Bob Allen | Apr 8, 2005 | News
The Alliance of Baptists moved its April 1-3 convocation from First Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C., to Furman University, because some members of the church objected to an openly lesbian minister preaching in the opening session. According to a report in the...
by Bob Allen | Apr 7, 2005 | News
While the old leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention generally avoided the ecumenical movement associated with the World Council of Churches and mainline Protestants in the 20th century, the new fundamental/conservative guard appears more open to emergence of a...
by Bob Allen | Apr 6, 2005 | News
The private contractor taking over maintenance work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has hired about 60 percent of the former seminary employees who took care of its facilities, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Sunday. Seminary spokesman Lawrence Smith...
by Bob Allen | Apr 5, 2005 | News
At a time when the Southern Baptist Convention is embracing fundamentalism, growing numbers of independent Baptists are warming to the idea of cooperation. One leader said only time will tell whether the convergence will be an “exclamation point or asterisk in...
by Bob Allen | Apr 5, 2005 | News
Expressing admiration for a Catholic pope that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, Southern Baptist leaders praised Pope John Paul II for his opposition to abortion, euthanasia, stem-cell research and communism. Baptist Press posted a story over the weekend...
