By Bob Allen The pastor of First Baptist Church in Lafayette, La., urged church members to pray and be open for “conversations about Jesus” after a deadly shooting in a movie theater in their hometown July 23. “After every mass…
Don McGregor, editor, ABP founder, dead at 91
By Bob Allen Don McGregor, a founder of Associated Baptist Press (today known as Baptist News Global) who served as the independent new service’s first executive director, died June 30 in Mesquite, Texas. He was 91. As editor of the…
Longtime music professor Richard Lin dies
By Bob Allen Richard Lin, a church music professor and choir director who mentored thousands of church musicians at two Southern Baptist Convention seminaries, died May 21 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Lin, 89, was born in 1925 in Hunan Province,…
Former Baptist leader Winfred Moore dies
By Bob Allen Two-time failed Southern Baptist Convention presidential candidate Winfred Moore — a Texas pastor who ran on a centrist platform aimed at depoliticizing the denomination in the 1980s — died May 8 in Amarillo, Texas. He was 95. Moore, pastor…
Bible translator, teacher Roger Omanson dies
By Bob Allen Roger Omanson, who except for teaching eight years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary devoted his career to Bible translation with the United Bible Societies, died April 30 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 68….
Gardner Taylor, preacher and civil rights leader, dies
By Bob Allen Gardner Taylor, an African-American Baptist pastor and civil rights leader dubbed the “prince of preachers,” died Easter Sunday, April 5, at age 96. Taylor, pastor emeritus at Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, N.Y., was a…
Baptist school mourns student’s death
UPDATE: Plainview police released a statement April 6 indicating the cause of death was suicide. By Bob Allen Police are investigating the death of a student in a residence hall on the campus of Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas….
Former CLC staffer David Lockard dies
By Bob Allen David Lockard, a Southern Baptist missionary who established the first Baptist seminary in Central Africa before heading up race relations and world hunger awareness for the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, died March 14 at age 89….
Two SBC leaders say Fred Craddock undermined ‘authoritative’ preaching
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist seminary professor says Fred Craddock, one of the most influential preachers in the last half century who died March 7 at age 86, was “dead wrong” in his fundamental assertion that good preaching should…