By Bob Allen A Calvinist church-planting network with ties to Southern Baptist leaders faces new allegations of covering up sexual abuse of children in a 46-page amended lawsuit filed May 14 in Maryland. The new court document includes graphic descriptions…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Can we work together despite differences?
The decision this past March of the Richmond Baptist Association to continue in Christian fellowship and partnership with Ginter Park Baptist Church was a crowning moment for me in the life of Baptist churches. We agreed to disagree, but to…
SBC leader compared to Martin Luther
By Bob Allen A Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor hailed the school’s president as a “modern-day Martin Luther” during a recent ceremony in the seminary chapel. “We owe much to this man,” New Testament professor Terry Wilder said of Paige…
SBC leader compared to Martin Luther
By Bob Allen A Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor hailed the school’s president as a “modern-day Martin Luther” during a recent ceremony in the seminary chapel. “We owe much to this man,” New Testament professor Terry Wilder said of Paige…
SBC leader compared to Martin Luther
By Bob Allen A Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor hailed the school’s president as a “modern-day Martin Luther” during a recent ceremony in the seminary chapel. “We owe much to this man,” New Testament professor Terry Wilder said of Paige…
Longtime editor R.G. Puckett dies
By Bob Allen Career journalist and champion for a free Baptist press R.G. “Gene” Puckett died May 12, months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Puckett, 80, worked as a Baptist journalist longer than any person in the 20th century….
Minister charged with enticing minor
By Bob Allen A Texas Baptist youth minister faces a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor after he exchanged sexual e-mail and text messages with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. Trevor Jacob Fortner, 25,…
Youth minister charged with enticing minor
By Bob Allen A Texas Baptist youth minister faces a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor after he exchanged sexual e-mail and text messages with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. Trevor Jacob Fortner, 25,…
OPINION: Consequences of ideas
As the jury drew near to the end of its deliberations I tried to keep current with the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the man who ran the now-infamous Philadelphia abortion clinic, and who was charged with the death of five…
R.G. Puckett, longtime Baptist editor in North Carolina and Maryland, dies at 80
RALEIGH (ABP) — Career journalist and champion for a free Baptist press R.G. “Gene” Puckett died May 12, months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Puckett, 80, worked as a Baptist journalist longer than any person in the 20th century….
R.G. Puckett, longtime Baptist editor in North Carolina and Maryland, dies at 80
RALEIGH — Career journalist and champion for a free Baptist press R.G. “Gene” Puckett died May 12, months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Puckett, 80, worked as a Baptist journalist longer than any person in the 20th century. He…
R.G. Puckett, longtime Baptist editor in North Carolina and Maryland, dies at 80
RALEIGH (ABP) — Career journalist and champion for a free Baptist press R.G. “Gene” Puckett died May 12, months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Puckett, 80, worked as a Baptist journalist longer than any person in the 20th century….