News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

On Thursday Night, I along with around 1500 or so Texas Democrats were packed shoulder-to-shoulder in The Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Austin. Together, we watched the Presidential Debate between Senators Clinton and Obama on CNN. Afterwards, we heard the music of country singer Kelly Willis followed by short speeches from various [...]

After a long week of thesisizing on Southern Baptists AND a late night trip to the Emergency Room due to a rather bizarre allergic reaction to Advil, thebigdaddyweave is preparing to journey South on I-35 to Austin. My destination is the Hyatt Regency where I will join many fellow Dems at the Debate Watch Party [...]

My former boss and Civil Rights hero, Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta, has announced that he will be casting his Superdelegate vote for Senator Barack Obama. Or did he? Here’s the article in The New York Times from Friday, February 15. MILWAUKEE — Representative John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil rights era and [...]

Christianity Today has posted an interview with Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. In the interview, Obama addresses the subject of abortion. Check out the exchange below: For many evangelicals, abortion is a key, if not the key factor in their vote. You voted against banning partial birth abortion and voted against notifying parents of minors [...]

Below is a snippet from Barack Obama’s inspiring sermon delivered today at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia where Daddy King Sr. and the late great Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served. What Dr. King understood is that if just one person chose to walk instead of ride the bus, those walls of [...]

The folks on MSNBC and out in the blogosphere have cited the Bradley Effect as a possible explanation for the big gap between the final polls which had Obama cruising to an easy victory and up approximately 7% and the end result, Hillary’s 39%-36% victory. Wikipedia explains the Bradley Effect also known as the Wilder [...]

  Barack Obama can speak. Anyone who heard his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention can attest to that fact.  Jennifer Hunter of the Chicago Sun-Times described Obama’s speech last week in Manning, South Carolina as “the most inspiring, the most elegant speech I have ever heard Barack Obama give. And he never mentioned [...]

Check out this interview/exchange between David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network and Barack Obama…. Brody Question: There is the so-called “religious left“ in this country that focuses primarily on social justice issues and there is the so-called “religious right” in this country that focuses more on personal salvation and the life and marriage issues. [...]

Last night many of you politico junkies tuned in for the gazillionith Presidential debate in this extraordinarily long primary season. The format was quite novel. Instead of Chris Matthews lobbing softballs, the candidates were faced with real hardballs straight from homemade YouTube videos created by the Average Joe. Senator Edwards was asked a rather pointed [...]

Today, Senator Barack Obama addressed the General Synod of the United Church of Christ. His message is powerful and I invite all my readers to take a few moments and read Senator Obama’s remarks. You can also watch the speech here. Senator Obama’s testimony…. So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean [...]