by Bob Allen | May 1, 2006 | News
The Alliance of Baptists went on record last week declaring itself “a self-consciously anti-racist group.” The Alliance, a 117-church organization started 19 years ago in a break with the Southern Baptist Convention, adopted a “call to...
by Bob Allen | May 1, 2006 | News
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 across the country to skip work,...
by Bob Allen | Apr 28, 2006 | News
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 decrying “open hostility”...
by Bob Allen | Apr 27, 2006 | News
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. “One of the questions we have been asking is...
by Bob Allen | Apr 26, 2006 | News
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 Shortt, who last year successfully led...
by Bob Allen | Apr 26, 2006 | News
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 female pastors, a historian told a state CBF...
