News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Below you will find another story dealing with a Baptist and the issues of race and diversity. Denise Isom is an EDUCATION professor at Calvin College in Michigan. Isom is African-American and is a Baptist. This past fall Isom requested an exemption to Calvin’s requirement that all faculty join a Christian Reformed Church (or one [...]

In an op-ed published in the Baylor Lariat, Roger Olson, professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, takes on John Piper and Calvinism. Olson definitely throws a few punches….. A snippet below: The God of Calvinism scares me; I’m not sure how to distinguish him from the devil. If you’ve come under the [...]

Ah, the Southern Baptist infighting may have just reached a new level in Florida… From the Associated Baptist Press… JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Some Baptists in this state say the Florida Baptist Convention is intimidating and demonizing churches that believe in Calvinism — and doing it with the churches’ own money. Convention executive director John [...]