by Bob Allen | Jun 16, 2004 | News
A comment by a Southern Baptist leader that a sister denomination affirms gay marriage is “completely outrageous,” said the top executive of American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Prior to Tuesday’s vote at the Southern Baptist Convention to sever...
by Bob Allen | Jun 16, 2004 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention took on the character of a campaign stop Tuesday afternoon, as President George W. Bush touted policies popular with the convention’s socially conservative base. Speaking live via satellite at the SBC meeting in Indianapolis, Bush...
by Bob Allen | Jun 16, 2004 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention rejected on Wednesday a resolution calling for a mass exodus from public schools, adopting instead a more generic warning against “secularization” of culture. Two Southern Baptist laymen earlier asked the convention’s...
by Bob Allen | Jun 16, 2004 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday night voted against a study on the possibility of a new name, an idea backed by leaders. Claude Thomas, a Texas pastor and former leader of the SBC Executive Committee, made a motion to establish a committee to evaluate the...
by Bob Allen | Jun 15, 2004 | News
Twenty-five years into a movement aimed at restoring conservative doctrines, Southern Baptists continue to drift along year after year reporting a little over 400,000 baptisms, and the vast majority of those occur in a relatively small percentage of the churches,...
