KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Phil Roberts, the embattled president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, resigned Feb. 10. No reason was stated, and trustees gave no details about their called five-and-a-half hour meeting at a Kansas City hotel that prompted the 61-year-old to step down.
Daily Archives: February 10, 2012
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President Obama Friday announced a change in the way that employees of religious organizations will receive free contraceptives that can cause abortions, but it fell far short of what is needed to protect religious liberty, say religious and conservative leaders. Richard Land and others said that an insurance company’s money […]
The trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Friday accepted the resignation of seminary R. Philip Roberts effective Feb. 29 during a called meeting at an airport hotel and named as acting president Robin Hadaway, associate professor of missions at the seminary.
Southern Baptists must decide whether they are satisfied with a “presumable encroachment of Calvinism” as they move toward a possible name change for the Southern Baptist Convention, newspaper editor Gerald Harris wrote Feb. 9, drawing responses from SBC entities.
Roger S. (Sing) Oldham, vice president for communications and convention relations with the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, examines diverse views of the doctrine of election, including Calvinism (also called the “doctrines of grace”), among Southern Baptists.
Reflecting on the bloodshed in Syria, a Christian worker observes, “The thing that saddens me most is this: You get a sense of excitement when you see millions of people chanting for democracy. But on the other side of that change is ultimately the same hopelessness that everyone began with, […]
Send North America is the strategic plan to reverse the Southern Baptist Convention’s trend of losing ground in the planting of new congregations, North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell told trustees during their Feb. 8 meeting in Miami.