The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission signed off without fanfare for the last time on the Richard Land Live! weekly radio show June 2. Land, Southern Baptists’ top spokesman for moral and religious-liberty concerns…
ABPNews adds blog section
Beginning today, Associated Baptist Press will publish one or more blogs daily, Monday through Friday, submitted by a variety of lay and ordained writers on www.baptistnews.com/blog. Topics will be as varied as the contributors themselves, ranging from social issues and spiritual…
The new face of interfaith dialogue
Interfaith dialogue is on the rise, not just in formal conversations led by judicatory leaders but in local communities where friendships forge as ministers of various faiths work together for common goals amid increasing religious diversity in the Bible belt….
Baptist group denounces ‘hate speech’
By Bob Allen The Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists called June 1 for Baptist leaders across all traditions to denounce rhetoric from Baptist pulpits promoting violence and even genocide against gays. Robin Lunn, executive director of the Kensington, Md.-based…
Trustees cancel Richard Land’s radio show
By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is pulling the plug on agency head Richard Land’s radio show over recent controversial remarks about the Trayvon Martin killing. The ERLC’s trustee executive committee announced June 1…
BWA sends funds to burned-out refugees
By Bob Allen The Baptist World Alliance has sent $25,000 in emergency financial aid to help rebuild a Baptist-run school at a refugee camp along the Thai-Burmese border destroyed by fire in April. The money sent through Baptist World Aid…
Pastor says gays should be put to death
By Bob Allen A Baptist pastor in Kansas is taking heat for suggesting the government should execute homosexuals in an audio clip from his Sunday sermon making the rounds on the Internet. Curtis Knapp, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church…
‘The Avengers’ a metaphor for the church
By Amy Butler As a loving parent interested in knowing what my children like, my ongoing and increasingly unsuccessful attempts to understand the teen-aged mind led me last week to go with them to see the new movie The Avengers….
Pastor defends NAACP marriage stance
By Bob Allen A Baptist minister and board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said May 26 it would have been hypocritical for the 103-year-old civil-rights organization not to pass its recent resolution supporting marriage…