National Public Radio featured a small Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Louisville, Ky., in a two-part series May 10 on the different ways U.S. evangelicals are responding to shifting attitudes about homosexuality and marriage in the United States. NPR’s Morning…
Mohler says Hastert conviction a morality tale
Wednesday’s sentencing of former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in a hush money case involving sexual abuse serves as a lesson for all, says a Southern Baptist seminary president criticized two weeks ago for introducing a speaker publicly identified…
Pastor wants SBC to repudiate Confederate flag
An African-American pastor is asking the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution calling for elimination of public display of the Confederate flag. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, recently submitted a resolution for possible consideration…
C.J. Mahaney says churches should defend their pastors
Fresh off an invitation to speak at a major pastor’s conference that stirred up memories of an alleged child sex-abuse cover-up at his former church, Pastor C.J. Mahaney reminded members of Sovereign Grace Church in Louisville, Ky., of their biblical…
Pastor in alleged sex abuse cover-up returns to preaching conference roster
Organizers of a major preaching conference this week in Louisville, Ky., ignored calls to disinvite a founder of the conference accused of participating in a cover-up of child sexual abuse. C.J. Mahaney, pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Louisville, took…
Abuse survivors want conference speaker removed
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is asking organizers of an upcoming religious conference to revoke a speaking invitation to a pastor accused of concealing multiple sex crimes. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said March…
Mohler cites CBF in veto of anti-LGBT ‘religious liberty’ bill
A Southern Baptist seminary president says theology played a role in Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision to veto a measure that would have discriminated against the state’s LGBT community. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.,…
Mohler applauds discovery of gravitational waves but says it doesn’t prove anything
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist theologian says astronomers study the universe not only through telescopes, but also a worldview lens that causes them to interpret their observations in ways contrary to biblical truth. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist…
Mohler applauds discovery of gravitational waves but says it doesn’t prove anything
People who see the vast expanse of space as evidence of an old universe rely on a secular rather than biblical worldview, says the Southern Baptist theologian and seminary president. A Southern Baptist theologian says astronomers study the universe not…
SBC leader joins Rubio advisory board
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist Convention leader has joined the Marco Rubio for President campaign on an advisory board concerning the dignity of human life. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is among a…
Louisville, Claypool and another gospel
A few weeks ago Albert Mohler, president of the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, compared his views with churches like Highland and Crescent Hill Baptist, as well as our many kindred churches across our city.
SBC leader says Christians should not attend a same-sex wedding
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist seminary president’s forthcoming book is making headlines with a suggestion that Christians should not attend a same-sex wedding ceremony, even it if means boycotting the marriage of their own child. “STANDING RESOLUTE” screamed a…