by Bob Allen | Feb 8, 2006 | News
A new policy requiring that Southern Baptist missionaries be baptized in a church that “practices believer’s baptism by immersion alone” is being defended by a seminary professor and pastor associated with a largely discredited view identifying...
by Bob Allen | Feb 7, 2006 | News
An International Mission Board trustee under fire for blogging about internal politicking among Southern Baptist leaders has rewritten a December blog that attacked “crusading conservatives,” using softer and less-militant terms. Wade Burleson, a trustee...
by Bob Allen | Feb 6, 2006 | News
A conservative United States senator warned against “far-left” environmentalists he claimed are trying to dupe the National Association of Evangelicals into adopting a policy statement on global warming. The Washington Post on Thursday reported that...
by Bob Allen | Feb 6, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist congressman’s rapid rise to power in the Republican Party hit a snag on Thursday, when Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) lost a runoff vote to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a bid to become House Majority Leader. The 122-109 ballot signaled a major change...
by Bob Allen | Feb 3, 2006 | News
Four months into his goal of leading churches in the Southern Baptist Convention to record 1 million baptisms in a single year, SBC president Bobby Welch has some catching up to do. According to a table on Welch’s “Everyone Can Kingdom Challenge” Web...
by Bob Allen | Feb 3, 2006 | News
A former Southern Baptist pastor and denominational leader on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to offering sex to a police officer decoying as a male prostitute, while the American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying charges against him should...
