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Barely two months ago, Rev. Wade Burleson caught hell for his decision to meet with President Jimmy Carter and other organizers of the New Baptist Covenant. The Baptist Blogosphere was flooded with allegations that President Carter was a Universalist - one who believes that all will be saved and spared from hell. Suffice [...]

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 [...]

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 planning for [...]

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 Convention who [...]

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 [...]

In 1964, Addie Elizabeth Davis became the first woman to be ordained to the gospel ministry by a Southern Baptist congregation - Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. At the time of her ordination, Rev. Davis was a student of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Not all Baptists in the Durham area [...]