News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Welcome to the NEW www.thebigdaddyweave.com. Below you’ll find a recent post from The Fellowship Portal, a blog of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. If you have a moment, stop by The Fellowship Portal which now showcases the personal blogs of nearly a dozen CBF Field Personnel located in places such as China, Greece, Macedonia, Belgium, Hungary, [...]

Last week, EthicsDaily.com ran an article of mine about Alabama Baptist minister and civil rights icon Rev. Shuttlesworth who is being presented with the Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society’s Courage Award on Thursday, June 19 at 9am in Ballroom E, Memphis/Cook County Convention Center. Here’s a snippet from my article: While not as well known as [...]

Recently Daniel Vestal, executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, visited Calvary Baptist Church here in Waco and preached on “Being Missional and Being Baptist.” The CBF has posted a similar sermon by Vestal on the same subject here. His conclusion: Can you imagine the transformation that would take place in the world if Baptist [...]

A couple of new blogs worth checking out…. Dr. Rob Nash, Coordinator of Global Missions for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, has entered the blogosphere. His blog is called Musings on the Journey. See my past post on Nash for more background info. The CBF has just started an online community over at http://cbfportal.wordpress.com Their purpose [...]

Live from the Hotel. Great General Session tonight. After the missionaries were commissioned and songs were sung, President David Coffey of the Baptist World Alliance addressed the General Assembly. Coffey was introduced as THE Global Baptist leader who pushed and pushed for the CBF’s membership into the Baptist World Alliance. Indeed an excellent preacher, Coffey [...]

A recent article in the St. Louis Dispatch profiled troublemaking Missouri Baptist layman, Roger Moran. Recently, according to the article, Moran declared that the Missouri Baptist Convention is on the “brink of civil war.” In years past, Moran targeted true “moderate” Baptists with his guilt-by-association tactics. Now, he’s after a so-called “new generation of moderates” [...]