GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Declaring “our total opposition to the … consuming of alcoholic beverages,” Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopted a strongly worded resolution on the issue June 14. Messengers adopted 15 resolutions presented by the SBC Resolutions Committee on…
SBC messengers ask for studies of execs’ perks, IMB turmoil
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Taking aim at issues ranging from SBC executives' perks, to Calvinism, from pandemics to what they should call homosexuals, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting presented a flurry of motions. In fact, 29 motions…
Will election of SBC president deal blow to neo-Calvinism?
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — When Southern Baptist Convention messengers elected dark-horse candidate Frank Page of South Carolina as president, they not only sent a populist message to the powerbrokers who backed other candidates, but also — at least in the…
Fish accentuates positive in NAMB report to SBC
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — After a rough spring, the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's domestic missionary agency tried to accentuate the positive in his annual report to the Southern Baptist Convention. Roy Fish, just-named interim president of the…
Corrections
Please make the following corrections to stories in the June 13 release: In “WMU looks for God's call during missions celebration” please correct the spelling of Martha Myers name in the 16th paragraph. It is Myers, not Meyers. In “Messengers…
Condi Rice tells SBC messengers America’s job to spread freedom
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — In an address that was received like a campaign stump speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, exhorting her listeners to support the United States in spreading freedom around…
Rogers’ widow warns of narrowing theological parameters in SBC
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Adrian Rogers' widow captured unexpected attention at the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference by asserting her husband would not approve of narrowing parameters of fellowship in the Southern Baptist Convention. Joyce Rogers, whose deceased husband was a…
Amended abstinence resolution calls for all SBC trustees to be teetotalers
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Declaring “our total opposition to the … consuming of alcoholic beverages,” Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopted a strongly worded resolution on the issue. During the Resolutions Committee's initial report Wednesday morning, messengers adopted half a dozen…
New SBC president an inerrantist, but he’s ‘just not mad about it’
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — “I do not believe the convention elected me to somehow undo the conservative resurgence,” said Frank Page after he was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention June 13. “That's not who I am and that's…
SBC sends Burleson dispute back to IMB trustees
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board will get a chance to resolve its own trustee dispute, despite a plea for outside arbitration. Trustee Wade Burleson asked SBC messengers to authorize the convention's Executive Committee to…
WMU looks for God’s call during missions celebration
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Christians need to hear, understand, embrace and live God's call, program personalities reminded Baptist women during the 2006 Woman's Missionary Union celebration. “How can you hear God's call when those around you want you to mimic…
Seminary presidents Mohler and Patterson debate Calvinism
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Baptist seminary presidents Paige Patterson and Albert Mohler may have philosophical differences on the subject of divine election as interpreted by Calvinism, but those differences have small practical effect, an hour-long dialogue between the two revealed….