As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...
By Molly T. Marshall Without it — that vision thing — we will not fulfill God’s longing for us. Indeed, we may well perish. Following the Eastertide texts in Acts, vision seems to be the catalyst for the boundary traversing…
By Bob Allen A former British Baptist pastor serving time in prison in the United States for child sex crimes now faces similar allegations at home. London’s Daily Mirror reported April 28 that seven men claim they were raped as…
The pastor search process might be a whole lot more fun (or funny) if it was run like the National Football League draft. Why go through months—even years—of searching for the right pastor when you just need to be ready…
By Bob Allen The atrocity of last December’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings transcends politics, raising gun violence to a moral issue that needs to be addressed from pulpits, a pastor said in a dialogue near the end of an…
By Bob Allen An interdenominational divinity school connected to an Alabama Baptist university celebrated its 25th anniversary in a chapel service April 23. “In the history of an institution, 25 years is not that long,” Beeson Divinity School Dean Timothy George…
By Bob Allen An interdenominational divinity school connected to an Alabama Baptist university celebrated its 25th anniversary in a chapel service April 23. “In the history of an institution, 25 years is not that long,” Beeson Divinity School Dean Timothy…
By Bob Allen An interdenominational divinity school connected to an Alabama Baptist university celebrated its 25th anniversary in a chapel service April 23. “In the history of an institution, 25 years is not that long,” Beeson Divinity School Dean Timothy…
By Bob Allen An interdenominational divinity school connected to an Alabama Baptist university celebrated its 25th anniversary in a chapel service April 23. “In the history of an institution, 25 years is not that long,” Beeson Divinity School Dean Timothy…
