by Bob Allen | Mar 8, 2006 | News
Would Herschel Hobbs have a place in today’s Southern Baptist Convention? In an article reportedly due out in an upcoming issue of SBC Life, Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, dismissed statements like “Election works like this: God...
by Bob Allen | Mar 7, 2006 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention’s coordinator of Jewish ministries is leaving his post at the North American Mission Board after 10 years to direct a program at Criswell College training Christians in “Jewish ministry.” According to Baptist Press,...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
President Bush’s faith-based initiative, launched as a centerpiece of his administration’s domestic agenda, recently passed its five-year anniversary without notice. A few weeks after he took office in January 2001, the president established the White...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
A trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board has started a Web log to counter criticism that the board acted improperly in calling for removal of a fellow trustee. Jerry Corbaley, an IMB trustee from McKinleyville, Calif., launched his blog...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
Best known for drawing multiple thousands of people to high-profile worship services, one secret to the success of the megachurch, the dominant model for church growth in the 1990s, experts agree, is the less-noticed gathering of smaller “cell groups” for...
by Bob Allen | Mar 3, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary professor who challenged a World Council of Churches leader for saying the Holy Spirit “reaches in mysterious ways to people of all faiths” is guilty of placing limits on God, a U.S. ecumenical leader says. Russell Moore, senior...
