As Southern Baptists prepare to vote on the adoption of the descriptor “Great Commission Baptists,” African American pastors are adding insight on how well the reference will improve the convention’s cross-cultural attraction. The use of the term “Southern” in the SBC’s name has been described as reminiscent of the Old […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2012
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A May 30 statement aimed at critiquing Calvinism launched a discussion within the Southern Baptist Convention nearly immediately when it was posted online, and the debate has yet to slow down.
An excavation team from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary marked a major archaeological milestone June 12 with the discovery of a large open section in the cave at Tel Gezer in the Holy Land.
On Father’s Day, Mike Young will be praying for his 16-year-old son who is in South Asia for a hands-on mission trip spanning nearly two months.
A father is intent on raising his three sons to be a “resource to the world” for Christ. “I don’t know that they’ll be pastors or missionaries,” Rex Jones says, “but … the world needs good Christian lawyers and doctors and dentists and people who are in professions that can […]
A diverse coalition of more than 140 Christian leaders says it has “grave” concerns over the Obama administration’s creation of a two-tiered system of religious organizations within the new health care law, and it has sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, […]
A college with strong Southern Baptist ties is preparing to open in Vermont, the least-churched state in the nation, with a goal of training church planters for service in New England.