News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Back in October, Americans United for Separation of Church and State requested the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether First Baptist Church of Dallas broke the law when it posted media clips of Pastor Robert Jeffress endorsing Texas governor and (now) failed presidential candidate Rick Perry. Now, another Southern Baptist pastor from Texas has endorsed [...]

David Neff, the editor of the flagship evangelical magazine, has written a powerful essay concerning the recent gathering of Christian Right leaders at Paul Pressler’s ranch in Brenham, Texas.  I previously penned a post on that event (see here). Neff begins: The 150 evangelical leaders who met behind closed doors on January 14 to anoint a [...]

Over the weekend, some 150 evangelical activists met to discuss GOP primary politics at the ranch of Paul Pressler in Benham, Texas.  Pressler, a retired Texas Court of Appeals judge, is best known for his role as the architect of the 1980s takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention that put fundamentalists in power and ousted [...]