Silence is a dangerous thing

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting on Tuesday voted down a proposal asking the Woman's Missionary Union to become an official entity of the SBC. The proposal's defeat allows WMU to retain its status as…