News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Mark McEntire is an Associate Professor of Religion at Belmont University in Nashville. In his recent column for EthicsDaily.com titled How Fast Can Rick Warren Spin?, McEntire argues that last Saturday’s Civil Forum on the Presidency held at Saddleback Church and hosted by the Saddleback Civil Forum (not Saddleback Church) violates the separation of church [...]

A Southern Baptist pastor named Dr. Samuel Krouse from California has been caught plagiarizing excerpts from Al Mohler’s new book titled Atheism Remix in an op-ed published by the Colusa County Sun Herald.  It appears the Southern Baptist pastor must be a reader of Mohler’s blog!  Large portions of the pastor’s op-ed appear to have [...]

From Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News via the DMN Religion Blog: “Dr. Albert Mohler, one of the more interesting of Southern Baptist theologians, has a new book upcoming that looks to waste his power on a less-than-robust foe. According to my e-box: “In his new book, Atheism Remix, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of [...]

According to Reason magazine, by 2017 women college graduates will outnumber male college graduates by a ratio of 3-to-2. Female students already outnumber male students on college and university campuses across America. But Al Mohler is not happy. Instead of applauding women who have made a decision to get that diploma, Al asks: Is Matriarchy [...]

The Southern Baptist Blogosphere has been on fire with this bit of expected news. DALLAS (BP)–Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. provides “the kind of visionary leader Southern Baptists need to communicate a missional conservatism and biblical clarity to the world,” stated Robert Jeffress, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of [...]

That’s the title of Terry Mattingly’s latest post over at GetReligion. Mattingly writes: The media have written extensively, if poorly, about Bush’s faith. There was that New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story about Bush’s faith. And countless others which we’ve all read over the past decade.And yet when President Bush celebrates other religions or [...]

Barely two months ago, Rev. Wade Burleson caught hell for his decision to meet with President Jimmy Carter and other organizers of the New Baptist Covenant. The Baptist Blogosphere was flooded with allegations that President Carter was a Universalist – one who believes that all will be saved and spared from hell. Suffice it to [...]

Straight from the Annual Meeting of the SBC in San Antone, Wade Burleson writes… These four men, led by Dr. Mohler today, gave to our convention the proverbial finger and said, “We do not care that you have told us the Baptist Faith and Message is the only consensus confession of the Southern Baptist Convention [...]

“Gay-baby curing” Al Mohler is the recipient of the highly prestigious Quote of the Day… Mohler recently wrote… A look at Julie Pennington-Russell’s education, experience, and related qualifications would appear to qualify her for a major pulpit . . . except for the fact that she is a woman. Yuck. Too bad the 1984 Al [...]