News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Messengers to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina decided today that Churches will no longer be allowed to support the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through the BSCNC beginning in 2010. Check the Biblical Recorder for the story later today. One NC Baptist fundamentalist had this to say about the decision over on his blog, Southern [...]

Marv Knox, editor of the Texas Baptist Standard, has an interesting op-ed entitled Differences, Defamation & Grace. Check out a snippet below:   A thoughtful reader recently sent me a letter lamenting the landslide of personal attacks and the torrent of abusive language that characterize Baptist life these days. He specifically cited the tone of [...]

Last month, I blogged about Texas Baptist nay-sayers who aren’t exactly thrilled with BGCT involvement in the New Baptist Covenant. You can read my take on that subject here. In a follow-up post, I compiled a long list of Texas Baptists who are involved in the planning process of the New Baptist Covenant. Over 25% [...]

Rick Davis, a Texas Baptist pastor and blogger, has posted online a short interview with BGCT Presidential Candidate David Lowrie. I have mentioned Mr. Lowrie in a previous post. This interview seems to be a result of a quote by Lowrie several weeks ago in which he promised to “stop the drift away from the [...]

In my last post, I mentioned a few very vocal Texas Baptists who have come out against the BGCT serving as an official partner with the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. Loudest among these critics is David Montoya who in a blog posted after mine had this to say about the BGCT and NBC: [...]

I grew up a Georgia Baptist. From the age of 6 until a Black Thursday fourteen years later, I proudly considered myself a Georgia Baptist. By my teenage years, I had already made my hajj to Maranatha and Koinonia. The writings of Walter Shurden offered historical context to the fundamentalism that I continued to experience [...]

David Currie of Texas Baptists Committed has posted a tribute to the late Herb Reynolds – former President of Baylor University. Dr. Herbert H. Reynolds died on Friday, May 25, 2007. Over 1,300 people attended a celebration of his life at First Baptist Church, Waco, last Wednesday. It was a wonderful tribute to his life, [...]