by Bob Allen | Sep 29, 2004 | News
A Baptist church in Georgia pulled out of its association Monday after the group overwhelmingly adopted a faith statement banning women as pastors. According to news reports, Floyd County Baptist Association in Rome, Ga., voted 428-130 to declare the 2000 Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Sep 28, 2004 | News
A Southern Baptist Convention leader is quoted as calling it a stretch to claim that Democrats are trying to ban the Bible, while saying that some people would like for quoting the Bible against homosexuality to be considered hate speech. The New York Times on Friday...
by Bob Allen | Sep 27, 2004 | News
A Georgia Baptist association votes today on a faith statement that some view as a referendum on a member church with a female co-pastor. Floyd County Baptist Association in Rome, Ga., is scheduled to vote this afternoon on an April executive board recommendation to...
by Bob Allen | Sep 24, 2004 | News
Twenty-two former Baylor University trustees signed a petition Tuesday calling on the current board of regents to replace President Robert Sloan this week with interim leadership and begin a national search for a new president. The statement says Sloan’s...
by Bob Allen | Sep 24, 2004 | News
Baylor University’s board of regents did not vote on Robert Sloan’s status as president and unanimously declined a request by the faculty senate to conduct a faculty referendum on Sloan’s leadership, according to a press release following...