Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
Abuse controversy prompts counseling group to move meeting from seminary campus
The Association of Biblical Counselors has moved an October conference about using the Bible to counsel abuse victims from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to another location in light of controversial statements by the seminary’s erstwhile president. Heath Lambert, outgoing executive…
Black seminarian questions evangelical identity given white Christian support for Trump
Sam Washington is a seminarian and Air Force veteran who was studying to become an evangelical pastor when Donald Trump was elected to the presidency. “I wonder if I should even go to church anymore,” Washington, who is black, wrote…
#AlMohlerToo: Did a Southern Baptist power broker just get woke?
Seminary president Albert Mohler, in a widely circulated essay, has called for independent, third-party investigations of allegations of sexual abuse in churches and Christian ministries. That position stands in stark contrast to the one he took in the recent past.
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Letters to the Editor for 05.26.18
The latest from our readers: • Abuse of women isn’t the result of theological systems. It’s the result of sin | Layne Wallace, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Contrast between Christian and traditional religions emerges along with Hawaiian lava flow
Recent volcanic eruptions have more than molten lava oozing to the surface on Hawaii’s Big Island. In addition to quakes and tremors and sulfuric acid poisoning the air, destroying homes and forcing some evacuations, nearly a month of heightened seismic activity also is exposing long simmering fissures between Christianity, and traditional Hawaiian religion.
Paige Patterson unrepentant after seminary trustee action
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s new president emeritus offered no new apologies in his first words to the campus community since his removal as the school’s president.
Baptist’s passion for faith, history and nature births new Yellowstone journal
Bruce Gourley is a Baptist from Georgia with a thing for history. And religion. And the American West. That passion — even calling — now has him penning and editing articles for the Yellowstone History Journal, a new scholarly publication of which he is the founder and editor.
Letters to the Editor for 05.24.18
The latest from our readers: • Patterson headline doesn’t tell the whole story | Chris Crowley, Richmond, Va.
Transitions for the week of 05.25.18
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
#MeToo controversy takes down Southern Baptist patriarch
Under pressure from the #MeToo movement, trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, have removed a president long praised for delivering the denomination from feminism. During a 13-hour called meeting precipitated by his past comments on women, divorce and domestic violence, trustees bestowed 75-year-old Paige Patterson the honorary title of president emeritus with compensation.