By Bob Allen As the Senate opened formal debate on a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform, a group of religious organizations called on senators to include a ban on religious profiling in the final package. An 844-page legislative plan developed…
Minister: gay marriage not Baptist fight
By Bob Allen An American Baptist leader in Illinois says clergy opponents of same-sex marriage violate Baptist principles by asking the government to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else. Larry Greenfield, executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of…
Minister says gay marriage not Baptist fight
By Bob Allen An American Baptist leader in Illinois says clergy opponents of same-sex marriage violate Baptist principles by asking the government to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else. Larry Greenfield, executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Governance study committee is ‘spot on’
I write to commend the committee appointed by Baptist General Association of Virginia president, Carl Johnson, and chaired by Jim Baucom for the enlightened white paper they produced identifying deficiencies in the BGAV governing apparatus. Specifically, the five areas addressed…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It’s not your mother’s WMU
Recently I was invited to the 2013 Shine Conference for Acteens, sponsored by Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia. I was asked to share my experience of having malaria. I was also asked to sit in on a session that was…
OPINION: Divesting doctrine
A recent Religious Herald included a review of Brian McLaren’s new book, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? I first encountered McLaren in college through his book, A New Kind of Christian. Here, through the…
TRENDING: SEKAP
Here’s a no-brainer trend: blogs, Twitter and Facebook pronouncements by public religious leaders going viral with all kinds of unintended negative consequences. Besides making me shake my bald head, it raises the question of what the “best practices” trend will be…
OPINION: A new commandment
Jesus makes his way around the entire room. He looks at each of us with the eyes of redemption and humbly bathes our feet. Some of us attempt to protest but none walk away without having been cleansed. I can’t…
Newtown event inspires disaster officials
By Jeff Brumley A CBF-supported conference called to help Newtown-area clergy has inspired Fellowship leaders to develop plans for responding to man-made disasters like the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. The April 26 workshop in Connecticut has similarly led other participants,…
KBC affirms Campbellsville University
By Bob Allen Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders said they came away satisfied after a three-hour meeting to investigate reports that Campbellsville University is getting rid of a Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-trained professor for being too conservative. State convention and university…
KBC affirms Campbellsville University
By Bob Allen Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders said they came away satisfied after a three-hour meeting to investigate reports that Campbellsville University is getting rid of a Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-trained professor for being too conservative. State convention and university…
KBC affirms Campbellsville University
By Bob Allen Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders said they came away satisfied after a three-hour meeting to investigate reports that Campbellsville University is getting rid of a Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-trained professor for being too conservative. State convention and university…