by Bob Allen | Aug 30, 2006 | News
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary declined to archive a Webcast of Tuesday’s chapel service, after a prominent black Southern Baptist pastor and seminary trustee reportedly said he uses a “private prayer language,” a form of speaking in...
by Bob Allen | Aug 29, 2006 | News
An Arab Baptist scholar told collegians in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday the 1948 establishment of Israel is “theologically insignificant” if the Bible is read from a Christ-centered, rather than a political and American fundamentalist, perspective. Martin...
by Bob Allen | Aug 28, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist theologian says debate over women in ministry is not a matter of biblical interpretation, but rather of obedience to God’s word. “I think it is an issue of basic obedience, because I don’t believe the Bible is at all unclear about...
by Bob Allen | Aug 25, 2006 | News
A number of celebrations from various theological perspectives are planned this fall around the 200th anniversary of a student-led prayer meeting that marked the beginning of America’s foreign missionary movement. Southern Baptists are seeking to capitalize on...
by Bob Allen | Aug 24, 2006 | News
If you’re reading this you can breathe a sigh of relief. It means the world didn’t end Aug. 22, as a number of conservative Web sites have speculated the last couple of weeks it might. It started not with some doomsday wacko, but with respected Princeton...
by Bob Allen | Aug 23, 2006 | News
Baptists today have largely abandoned a noble tradition of the separation of church and state in part because they have forgotten what it is like to be a religious minority, says the author of a new book critical of America’s Religious Right. Randall...
