by Bob Allen | Apr 30, 2008 | News
A movement launched in 1979 to purge the Southern Baptist Convention of so-called “liberalism” failed in its promise to deliver a more evangelistic denomination, according to an SBC statistician. “The Conservative Resurgence failed to produce a Great...
by Bob Allen | Apr 30, 2008 | News
Iran’s mix of political instability and harsh enforcement of Sharia law are combining to produce an unexpected result–increased interest in the gospel message–reports a broadcasting ministry operated by and for Christian in the Middle East....
by Bob Allen | Apr 29, 2008 | News
The Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship, a ministry formed in 1990 to preach the gospel to Jews, will for the first time have a booth this year in the exhibit hall at the Southern Baptist Convention. Baptist Press reports the messianic fellowship is “now...
by Bob Allen | Apr 28, 2008 | News
Baptists should condemn the idea that incarceration cures crime, advocate just alternatives to prison and work to reclaim and restore persons leaving the penal system, says an appellate judge and ordained Baptist minister. “If I told you that I could cure cancer...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 28, 2008 | News
More than 140 Baptist leaders from 25 states and the District of Columbia endorsed a Baptist Center for Ethics letter sent today calling on the U.S. Senate to pass climate-change legislation. Being delivered this morning to Senate offices by e-mail, the letter from...
by Bob Allen | Apr 25, 2008 | News
Thoughts about subordination of women that brought censure to a female presenter who critiqued them in a recent apologetics conference at Midwestern Baptist Theological seminary find some parallel in recent history of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to an...