by Brian Kaylor | Sep 7, 2012 | News
As thousands of delegates, elected officials and guests flocked to Charlotte, N.C., for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), the Baptist Center for Ethics (BCE) assembled an ecumenical panel in the midst of it all to inject faith into political considerations of...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 27, 2012 | News
Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) leaders hosted a Friday afternoon conference call to rally support for the candidacy of embattled Missouri Senate nominee Todd Akin, who said women rarely become pregnant after “legitimate rape.” Former Arkansas Gov. Mike...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 22, 2012 | News
Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin, a congressman from the St. Louis area, sparked national headlines and outrage after claiming on Sunday that women rarely become pregnant after “legitimate rape.” Akin won the Republican Senate primary earlier...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 20, 2012 | News
As Richard Land, embattled head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), faced Southern Baptist messengers yesterday for the first time since his controversial and plagiarized racial remarks, he quickly glossed...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 15, 2012 | News
A prominent African-American Southern Baptist pastor hopes messengers at next week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention will pass a resolution condemning Mormonism as racist. The move by Dwight McKissic, a pastor in Arlington, Texas, comes as some...
