News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

A week or so ago, Baptist ethicist David Gushee penned an op-ed for Associated Baptist Press titled Reflections from BWA: Missing and forgiving, Southern Baptists. In his column, Gushee called on “the Southern Baptist Convention to rejoin the world Baptist family, on humbler terms.” Gushee also “called on” us former Southern Baptists to “renounce SBC [...]

Baptist ethicist and Associated Baptist Press editorial-writer David Gushee recently put out his third article in the past four months on homosexuality. Gushee’s first article was appropriately titled “On homosexuality, can we at least talk about it?” Gushee stated his purpose for this series up front: …to begin a dialogue in this column by simply [...]

Here is a link to the Introduction of my paper entitled “Evangelical Centrists and Moderate Baptists: The Case For Incompatibility.” You can read the entire paper here. Tomorrow, I will post a section on Substantive Neutrality and Saturday I will post sections on the Baptist Joint Committee and the Texas Christian Life Commission. The second [...]

Like last week, this upcoming week will be a light blogging period for me. I’ve got a paper to write and my last thesis chapter to finish. So, in light of that – I’m going to post a paper that I recently wrote. It’s divided up into 5 parts with today being the Introduction. After [...]

On Sunday night, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama participated in CNN’s Compassion Forum held on the campus of Messiah College in Pennsylvania. John McCain – the Baptopalian – was a no show. You can read a summary of the shindig over at CNN. You can also read the transcript here. I’m posting the transcript [...]

In Chapter 3 of his new book – The Future of Faith in American Politics – Dr. David Gushee answers the question Who is the Evangelical Left? Gushee argues that the most visible voices of the evangelical left include Tony Campolo, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren and in the black evangelical community Jesse Jackson and Obery [...]

“Just as many Christian liberals of a previous generation were unable to say no to abortion-on-demand because they were more liberal than Christian, many Christian conservatives of this generation have been unable to say no to torture because they are more conservative than Christian.” – David Gushee Randall Balmer, Professor of American Religious History at [...]

David Gushee, a well-known ethics professor at Mercer’s McAfee School of Theology, has an article over at Christianity Today about his involvement in planning the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, racial reconciliation, and his experiences at McAfee. Check it out. UPDATE (Link fixed)

From Johnny Pierce of Baptists Today….   MACON, Ga. – Prominent ethicist David P. Gushee has been appointed as distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University. He comes from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where he has been the Graves professor of moral philosophy and senior fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry [...]