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The Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention held in Indianapolis is underway this afternoon and a couple more “conservative” motions were made.
Bill Sanderson from North Carolina moved that Broadway Baptist Church of Ft. Worth would not be in friendly cooperation with the SBC.
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A motion was made to require educational institutions receiving Cooperative Program funds [...]

NEWS RELEASE
Embattled pastor of Broadway Baptist Church quits
April 17, 2008 Fort Worth, Texas
After months of controversy, and survival of an unprecedented 1/3 to 2/3 vote to vacate the pulpit, Brett Younger is resigning as pastor of Broadway Baptist Church. He is taking a position at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Brett Younger’s last Sunday [...]

The ongoing Controversy at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth has made its way from the world wide web and blogosphere into several secular newspapers. 
First, an article titled Broadway Baptist group seeks ouster of pastor written by Max Baker appeared in the Forth Worth Star-Telegram.
Also, The Christian Post has an article titled, [...]

Please see my original post on the latest controversy at Broadway Baptist Church here.
Below is a follow-up to that post.
Around 220 members have released a Response to the newly formed “Friends for the Future of Broadway” which I discussed in my previous blog.
Here’s the letter posted from J.C. Baker’s website:
We are deeply saddened about the [...]

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Back in November, Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth made national news. A new pictorial directory was supposed to be part of Broadway’s 125th birthday celebration. However, controversy erupted over three gay couples that asked to have their pictures included. Questions such as whether allowing the portraits to [...]

From Sam Hodges of the Dallas Morning-News….
A prominent Fort Worth church continues to struggle with how to handle photographs of gay members in a pictorial directory that’s to be part of its 125th anniversary celebrations. 
Broadway Baptist Church has debated whether to include gay couples, or gay people as individuals but not as couples, or whether [...]

An interesting story coming out of Fort Worth concerning Broadway Baptist Church (BBC is the former home of Stephen Shoemaker of Myers Park in Charlotte):
Gay couples trigger debate at church

By MAX B. BAKER
Star-Telegram staff writer
FORT WORTH — A new pictorial directory was supposed to be part of Broadway Baptist Church’s 125th birthday celebration.
Established in 1882 [...]