News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

This exciting occasion comes on the heels of an “endorsement” of the popular yet controversial SBCOutpost blog by four prominent Southern Baptist leaders. Dr. Bart Barber of PraiseGodBarebones has the play-by-play….. In the meantime, it has been quite a day of activity in the blog world. David Dockery, Morris Chapman, Jerry Rankin, and Thom Rainer [...]

This is from David Broady of the Christian Broadcasting Network….   Broady writes….  A very influential religious leader has some pretty strong opinions about soon-to-be presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Dr. Richard Land is head of the Southern Baptist Convention. Within evangelical circles he is well known. Politically, he is a mover and a shaker. Today [...]

On Friday, Baptists attending the joint gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the American Baptist Churches USA met at Fountain Plaza, directly behind the United States Capitol to celebrate religious liberty through the reading of G.W. Truett’s historic sermon. Johnny Pierce of Baptists Today covered the event (which I attended)…. WASHINGTON (ABP) — Eighty-seven [...]

Straight from the Annual Meeting of the SBC in San Antone, Wade Burleson writes… These four men, led by Dr. Mohler today, gave to our convention the proverbial finger and said, “We do not care that you have told us the Baptist Faith and Message is the only consensus confession of the Southern Baptist Convention [...]

What Liberals Are Missing That’s the title of the second chapter of Richard Land’s new book, The Divided States of America And, well, it’s far from being fair and balanced. Sam Harris is Land’s first target. Thankfully, Land acknowledges that Harris “does not speak for all liberals.” So, Land moves on to attack Jim Wallis [...]

I’m weak. Tonight, I gave in and purchased Richard Land’s new book, The Divided States of America?: What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match! For the $25 spent, I hope it’s worth the money. We’ll see… Over the next week or two, I will be blogging about Land’s seemingly “moderate” contribution [...]

For the second time in the past few weeks, Richard Land has found himself on the same side of the aisle as Senator Ted Kennedy. Melissa Rogers has the story HERE… “[On March 29, 2007,] Senators Kennedy, Graham, Salazar, and Menendez and Representatives Gutierrez and Flake joined leading conservative evangelical voices for comprehensive immigration reform. [...]