News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Here’s the story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia Baptists take aim at women-led churches  Georgia Southern Baptists approved a policy Tuesday aimed at diminishing the role of churches led by women pastors. The policy is a broad one and provides the Georgia Baptist Convention the ability to refuse donations from entities out of sync with [...]

Tonight’s sermon at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant was given by Julie Pennington-Russell, Senior Pastor of the historic First Baptist Church, Decatur, Georgia. Before coming to Decatur, Julie was my pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Read my past posts about her here. The title of Pastor Julie’s sermon was “The [...]

Well, I’m here today to announce that my dad has officially put one foot into this thing called the Baptist Blogosphere. You can find him below or at http://drweaver.blogspot.com His first post is a response to Al Mohler’s “tragedy” comment regarding FBC Decatur, Georgia’s decision to call Julie Pennington-Russell as their pastor. It’s also a [...]

“Gay-baby curing” Al Mohler is the recipient of the highly prestigious Quote of the Day… Mohler recently wrote… A look at Julie Pennington-Russell’s education, experience, and related qualifications would appear to qualify her for a major pulpit . . . except for the fact that she is a woman. Yuck. Too bad the 1984 Al [...]