Two reprimands have been issued to Richard Land by the trustee executive committee of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The ERLC trustee committee also is terminating Land’s weekly call-in radio show, which was the venue where he made comments about the Trayvon Martin killing that ignited intense controversy, prompting […]
Daily Archives: June 1, 2012
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Maryland pastor James Dixon Jr., president of the National African American Fellowship, has voiced “a heart to forgive” following the reprimands of Richard Land issued by trustees of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The NAAF encompasses 3,400 predominantly African American churches in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Sammy Nuckolls, a 33-year-old evangelist who spoke for years at Southern Baptist youth gatherings, has pleaded guilty to charges of video voyeurism in two Arkansas towns, been charged in Texas and been granted extra time to accept a plea bargain on similar charges in Mississippi.
The faith of Alejandro, a village tribal leader in Ecuador, reflects the synergy of the Cooperative Program and the missions involvement of a Southern Baptist church in central Louisiana.
An online petition calls on Baptist leaders “to denounce all hate speech and the use of the pulpit as a weapon of terror against the LGBT community.” By Bob Allen The Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists called June 1 for Baptist leaders across all traditions to denounce rhetoric from […]
A closer look at this night aboard a ship with Jesus; If you’ll remember these disciples followed Jesus into the ship before the storm of earthquake proportions. Matthew 8:23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. The storm has begun, the ship is now being […]