by Robert Parham | Sep 20, 2000 | Opinion
A Southern Baptist Convention leader attacked the Baptist General Convention of Texas for allegedly breaching the cooperative spirit within Baptist life and abandoning its worldwide commitment. Morris Chapman, president of the SBC’s Executive Committee, charged...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Sep 20, 2000 | Opinion
The issue of women’s roles, now a non-issue for American Baptists, remained a hot topic among Southern Baptists, Independent Baptists and National Baptists in the 1990s. Out of the SBC controversies of the 1980s, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship formed in...
by Karen and Jeffry Zurheide | Sep 12, 2000 | Opinion
Contrary to glowing reports in family Christmas letters, many parents are struggling over their children. Why? Parents naturally have high hopes and expectations for their offspring. Often, however, these hopes go unmet. There are numerous causes of parental...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Sep 12, 2000 | Opinion
One year after the SBC revised its “Baptist Faith and Message” in 1963, Addie Davis became the first Southern Baptist woman to be ordained to the ministry. Seven years passed before another SBC church ordained a woman minister, Shirley Carter. Numerous SBC...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
Increasing numbers of independent and Southern Baptists were highly suspicious of Baptist women’s involvement in the broader women’s movement in America and Europe. Nevertheless, enough SBC men voted to accept women messengers with voting privileges in...
by Mike Harton | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
I really don’t want to get old before my time. But I’m beginning to think my grandparents were right: the world really is “going to hell in a hand basket.” I’m talking about the demise of civility. Witness these recent examples: In...
