News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

That’s the title of Terry Mattingly’s latest post over at GetReligion.
Mattingly writes:
The media have written extensively, if poorly, about Bush’s faith. There was that New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story about Bush’s faith. And countless others which we’ve all read over the past decade.And yet when President Bush celebrates other religions or otherwise expresses [...]

Check out John Pierce’s latest post at Baptists Today Blogs.
Recently, John sat down with Neville Callam, the new General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. Read what was said:
Of his many open and interesting responses to my questions, I was intrigued by one in particular. Callum expects the Southern Baptists to return to the [...]

Last week at the 2008 Alabama Straw Poll sponsored by the West Alabama Republican Assembly, the Reverend John Killian, pastor of Maytown Baptist Church, offered his public endorsement of Republican Presidential Candidate, Ron Paul.
In addition to pastoring a growing SBC church in Birmingham, Alabama, Killian has a seemingly popular blog. C.B. Scott, one of [...]

From Seth of the Imaginary News Network! A Classic!
Jesus Returns, Joins Southern Baptist Convention

AUGUSTA, GA - In a glorious nod to orthodox preterists everywhere, Jesus Christ has returned. In an equally shocking turn of events, He has decided to join the SBC. When asked for comment, a spokesperson for SBC Chairman Bill Harrell said, “I [...]

Fred Thompson has found more love from Southern Baptist leaders. An article in the Tuscaloosa News quotes Morris Chapman, President of the Executive Committee of the SBC, as saying…
“Another Southern Baptist called Fred Thompson the Ronald Reagan of the South, and I think he has some of that appeal. He is a magnetic personality. [...]

Tom Ascol is perhaps the most well known Calvinist in the Southern Baptist Convention. He serves as the Executive Director of Founders Ministries - an organization that desires the return of the SBC to her Reformed roots.
Over at the Founder’s Ministries blog, Tom Ascol is complaining that a public school in San Diego has [...]

Southern Baptists Rely on Deception in Effort to Convert Jews.
That’s the title of a recent in-depth article put out by JewsOnFirst.org.
Check it out:
Six million Jews and only 15 Southern Baptist Messianic Churches! A Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) official’s recent juxtaposition of the US Jewish population (and, by inevitable association, the number of Jews killed in [...]

According to the Christian Post….
The nation’s largest African American religious organization this year has for the first time placed HIV/AIDS on its conference agenda.More than 45,000 delegates of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., have convened in St. Louis this week for their 102nd Annual Congress of Christian Education. And among the highlights of the [...]

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 and [...]

As reported by Southern Baptist blogger Art Rogers….
Paige Patterson was interviewed by the Criswell College radio station. In that interview he said that every 25 years the SBC has to throw out Liberals and that it was time to do it again. When asked if these men might be Conservatives who disagree with methodology, he [...]