News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

From Associated Baptist Press ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter met with several well-known Southern Baptist bloggers May 17 in Atlanta to solicit support for an unprecedented gathering of Baptists in North America. Carter, perhaps the world’s most prominent Baptist layman, invited the bloggers and other Southern Baptist leaders to become part of the [...]

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 [...]

Frederick Clarkson of Talk2Action has responded to Wiley Drake’s denial with a thoughtful and timely post. Like last time, I will post snippets below but read Clarkson’s entire article before responding… What public figures do when they get caught doing or saying something controversial is endlessly interesting. Sometimes they puff on a big cigar and [...]

Please read this post from Frederick Clarkson of Talk2Action…. A Top Leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Endorsed Domestic Terrorism. Shouldn’t That Be News? Snippets won’t do Clarkson’s post justice. I’ll offer a few tidbits below – but check out the fullversion at Talk2Action. And now there is the vice president of the Southern Baptist [...]

Today at the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, I will be presenting a paper entitled The Impact of Social Progressive T.B. Maston Upon Southern Baptist Life in the 20th Century. T.B. Maston was one of the most significant Southern Baptists of the twentieth century. More than any other figure, Maston was [...]

Check out this EthicsDaily.com article on Wiley Drake, 2nd Vice President of the SBC. The Southern Poverty Law Center criticized the Southern Baptist Convention for electing a second vice president last June whose name appears on a “Declaration of Support for James Kopp,” a man convicted of killing a doctor because he provided abortions. Already [...]

His name is Paige Patterson. He is the President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Patterson is also a former President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here is what Patterson said (in a chapel sermon) regarding the Virginia Tech massacre and the possibility that such a mass killing could happen at Southwestern. “Now [...]

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. [...]

The Dallas Morning News has reported that Dr. Sheri Klouda has filed suit in federal court against Paige Patterson and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Alleging that she lost her job in the School of Theology because of her gender, Klouda accuses Patterson and SWBTS of breach of contract, fraud, and defamation. Klouda has requested unspecified [...]

Yep. That’s correct. The Southern Baptist Convention’s bookstores are stocking their catalog/shelves with “gay-friendly authors,” Wal-Mart style. Horrors? Or Hypocrisy? Not a believer. Check out this article from EthicsDaily.com Here is a snippet… In 2005 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution urging churches to be on guard against homosexual influences in public schools. But [...]