By Bob Allen The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an organization opposed to women’s ordination and other trends attributed to feminism in the evangelical church, has named a new leader. Owen Strachan, 31, assistant professor of Christian theology and…
Missionary/prof Justice Anderson dies
By Bob Allen Justice Anderson, who often introduced himself as a “sometime Baptist pastor, a longtime Baptist foreign missionary and an even longer-time professor of missiology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas,” died Dec. 29 of a…
Youth pastor charged with sex crimes
By Bob Allen The youth pastor of a Tennessee Baptist church was arrested Jan. 3 on charges of statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure. Joseph Todd Neill, 36, youth director at North Fork Baptist Church in Shelbyville,…
Redeeming fornication
By Bob Allen Christians lost more than just a word when they began substituting modern euphemisms like “premarital sex” for the old-fashioned sin of “fornication,” a Southern Baptist theologian said in a recent essay. Russell Moore, theology dean at Southern…
Iowa Baptist church open to gay weddings
By Bob Allen An American Baptist church in Iowa City has announced it will perform same-sex weddings, presumably the state’s first Baptist congregation to do so since Iowa’s Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2009. The Des Moines Register reported…
Pastor calls for ‘serious’ gun control
By Bob Allen A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor and activist judge is asking the state of Arkansas to limit gun ownership in the same way it regulates motor vehicles, including licensure and required insurance. Wendell Griffen, pastor of New Millennium…
Idolatry and the AR-15
By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…
Idolatry and the AR-15
By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…
Idolatry and the AR-15
By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…