by Bob Allen | May 9, 2006 | News
Northwest Arkansas pastor Ronnie Floyd will be nominated as president of the Southern Baptist Convention next month in Greensboro, N.C. Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., announced Sunday he planned to nominate Floyd, senior pastor of the...
by Bob Allen | May 9, 2006 | News
Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee last Wednesday approved a military bill that would allow chaplains to pray “according to their own conscience,” while rejecting an amendment requiring chaplains to show “sensitivity”...
by Bob Allen | May 8, 2006 | News
Southern Baptist seminary president Albert Mohler on Wednesday renewed his call for Christian parents to have an “exit strategy” from public schools. On his live radio show, Mohler fielded a call from a listener who read in a Christian publication that...
by Bob Allen | May 8, 2006 | News
The Tennessee Baptist Convention meets Tuesday in an historic special session to deal with a dispute over trustee selection at Belmont University. Belmont receives about 3 percent of its funding from the state convention. Over the years the Nashville school has earned...
by Bob Allen | May 6, 2006 | News
A Georgia pastor named at a February Bible conference that has become the traditional forum for announcing the favored candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention told his church April 30 he has declined to be nominated. “Thank you for praying for...
by Bob Allen | May 5, 2006 | News
A group of conservative Baptists has issued a statement warning that “narrowing of cooperation through exclusionary theological and political agendas” seriously threatens the unity and mission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “It is time for...
