By Bob Allen The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has declined to reaffirm accreditation of Georgia Baptist-related Brewton-Parker College and placed the school on probation. Probation, the association’s most serious sanction short of loss of accreditation, gives the four-year…
Conversation and hiring policies: This is not about that.
“A [Baptist] Conversation on Sexuality” did many things for CBF Baptists, including creating an open forum for people of differing theological beliefs to sit across from one another and talk. It welcomed more people from differing perspectives on issues of…
Talk about sexuality isn’t enough
By Chris Hughes A [Baptist] Conversation on Sexuality did many things for CBF Baptists, including creating an open forum for people of differing theological beliefs to sit across from one another and talk. It welcomed more people from differing perspectives…
Out on a limb
By Bill Leonard On June 30, Daniel Vestal retired as coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, an organization established in 1991 from divisions in the Southern Baptist Convention. In many ways his ecclesiastical journey reflects transitions in multiple religious communions,…
BTSR goes ‘boothless’ in Fort Worth
By Bob Allen Alumni of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond searched in vain this year for a booth in the exhibit hall at last week’s Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, but their alma mater was far…
Texas CLC honors state senator
By Bob Allen The Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission presented state Sen. Wendy Davis with its Horizon Award for leadership in public service in recognition of her efforts to curb predatory lending practices in the state. Davis, a Democrat from…
CBF a candle in search of darkness
By Alan Bean I was a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville when the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was founded in 1991. I left Southern Baptist life to become an American Baptist minister in 1994, and last…
CBF General Assembly…
I am in Ft. Worth at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s annual General Assembly, sitting on the second floor lobby of the Omni Hotel looking out at the Convention Center, where most of the activity is taking place. This is my…
Vestal focuses on God in final sermon
By Jeff Brumley There were plenty of big developments for Daniel Vestal to address in his final sermon at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 22, including approval of the 2012 Task Force report, the issue of “letters of…