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Baptist Leaders Endorse ‘Day Without An Immigrant’
Two Baptists leaders added their voices to endorse today's "Day Without An Immigrant" boycott to demonstrate how vital immigrant workers are to the economy of the United States. Protest organizers asked immigrants...
Believing or Not Believing the Bible
We are in the midst of the Easter season. Christians everywhere continue to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. We have heard the Gospel stories about the crucifixion and the empty tomb and continue to hear with...
Education and the SBC Lifeboat Ethic
Baptist Christians in America should take notice: the strong, well-fortified and constituent-rich lifeboat called the Southern Baptist Convention is pulling away from a sinking culture, one burning with sin. This...
Homeschooling Network Decries ‘Open Hostility’ from SBC Bureaucracy
A grassroots network of Southern Baptist homeschooling families, pastors and scholars has endorsed a resolution proposed to the Southern Baptist Convention advocating an "exit strategy" from public schools, while...
Theological Education Should Connect With Churches, Seminary President Says
About 25 years ago the typical seminary student was a white male in his 20s, with a working wife putting him through school. Today she is increasingly likely to be female, older and for ministry to be a second career....
What’s Being Taught at Christian Schools?
I recall riding on a bus to D.C. and on the trip there was a lady reading a book about the Christian version of math. I found the idea rather strange that there was a definite biblical view distinctly different from...
BCE Moves to Virtual Office
The Baptist Center for Ethics is leaving behind a physical office space for a virtual space, beginning May 1. Good bye bricks and mortar. Hello telecommunications! Some may ask, what's a virtual office? Others may want...
Proposed SBC Resolution Seeks ‘Exit Strategy’ From Public Schools
A call for Southern Baptists to develop an "exit strategy" from public schools has been submitted to a committee responsible for drafting and recommending resolutions at the 2006 Southern Baptist Convention. Bruce...
SBC Needs to Let Their Yes Be Yes or No Be No on Public Schools
Anti-public school Southern Baptists are divided into two camps--those who offer misdirection and those who articulate a clear direction. Reacting to the Baptist Center for Ethics' initiated pastoral letter supporting...
Historian Says Moderate Baptists Letting Women Pastors Down
Women have come a long way in moderate Baptist ministry in four decades, but groups like the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship need to do far more to match their walk with their talk when it comes to opening pulpits to...
Conservative Groups Promote Implementation of SBC Resolution
In direct response to last summer's Southern Baptist Convention resolution decrying homosexual influences in public schools, the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council and...
Co-Pastors
In 1996 our moderate Baptist friends in the Carolinas were not optimistic--a local Baptist congregation calling a husband and wife to serve as pastor? They didn't think so. And sometimes we didn't either. The...
Remembering William Sloane Coffin
Bill Coffin has died. Rev. William Sloane Coffin was likely the most influential liberal Protestant clergyman and leader of his generation. One of the first white men to go South and be arrested in the civil rights...
Growing But Controversial Pentecostal Movement Celebrates Centennial
Thousands of Pentecostals from around the world are expected April 25-29 in Los Angeles to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a series of revival meetings that sparked what is now the fastest-growing segment of...
Blogging IMB Trustee Might Be Nominated for SBC President
An International Mission Board trustee at the center of a dispute over principled dissent has withdrawn from a speaking engagement just prior to this summer's Southern Baptist Convention, suggesting he might be...
Religion Professor Nominated to Head CBF Global Missions
Shorter College religion dean Rob Nash has been nominated as next Global Missions coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Announced Monday in a press release, Nash's nomination by a seven-member search...
Baptist Center for Ethics Issues Pastoral Letter Affirming Public Schools
The Baptist Center for Ethics on Friday released a pastoral letter decrying the demonization of public education and calling on Baptists to "speak positively about public education and to take proactive initiatives...
Judge Denies Mistrial in Baptist Foundation of Arizona Case
Controversy broke out on the 87th day of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona fraud trial, when a witness said he had previously lied under oath, an admission that by law should have been disclosed to defense lawyers but...
Churches Observe Earth Sunday
More than 2,000 congregations across the nation will celebrate Earth Day Sunday this weekend. The Eco-Justice Program of the National Council of Churches sent out nearly 2,500 worship resources, titled Through the Eye...
SBC Baptisms Decline
Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch's plan to "rev up a rundown romance with reaching people" may be in need of a jumpstart, with statistics released Wednesday showing a decline in baptisms for the fifth...
Faithful Support For Public Education
Public education has been under assault for some time now from segments of the Christian community. That's why it is all the more amazing to learn that a Baptist entity has decided that instead of attacking public...