Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual gathering have voted overwhelmingly to break ties with Fort Worth's Broadway Baptist Church in a controversy over how accepting Christians should be of homosexuality. The Associated Baptist Press and Baptist Standard have...
Missions giving is up by more than 2 percent, but baptisms are at the lowest level in more than 20 years. Details in this press release from a wing of the Southern Baptist Convention:...
EthicsDaily is a website run by what we generally call "moderate" Baptists. It's quarterbacked by Robert Parham, the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. He's got a column there that starts: Reversing the Southern Baptist Convention's decline and...
Baptist Press has a story about research on a number of hot topics in the Southern Baptist Convention, including the growing number of recent SBC seminary graduates who consider themselves to be five-point Calvinists....
"Attendance at the recent convention in Indianapolis dropped 20 percent. You can't do that very often and not be in serious trouble." -- Johnny Hunt, newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (quoted by Religion News Service)...
"We should not be endorsing candidates. We should be looking for candidates who endorse us, and our values, and our beliefs, and our convictions." -- Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention...
With the Southern Baptist Convention meeting this week in Indianapolis, much has been written about declining membership within the denomination. Here's a story from The Washington Post suggesting that part of the problem involves the marketing of an unpopular brand....
The Associated Press has done a story showing that Southern Baptists aren't yet solidly behind John McCain's presidential bid. The Rev. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano is among those quoted....
The fight continues over guidelines aimed at keeping Southern Baptist missionaries from speaking in tongues during private prayer. Associated Baptist Press has a story about an organized effort to get the SBC's International Mission Board to change the guidelines....
That's the subtitle of an article done by two scholars at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. EthicsDaily.com has an article on the scholarly article, including a link to it....
A survey of Southern Baptist Convention pastors shows them to more conservative than most Americans on certain issues, including the need to fight global warming. Here's a press release from Lifeway, the SBC's research arm:...
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