News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

The Alliance of Baptists is holding their 2008 Convocation on March 28-30 in New Orleans. Though personally not a member of the Alliance, my very good friend The Rev. Angela Yarber is. And she’s been asked to serve as one of the four Artists in Residence at the Convocation. You can read about Angela and [...]

Here’s a bit of international Baptist news on the religious liberty front. According to the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper (and several other sources), a large gathering of Baptists will be held next week in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnam Grace Baptist Church (a denomination) will holds its first General Conference from January [...]

In 1964, Addie Elizabeth Davis became the first woman to be ordained to the gospel ministry by a Southern Baptist congregation – Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. At the time of her ordination, Rev. Davis was a student of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Not all Baptists in the Durham area took kindly [...]