By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist seminary professor took strong exception to recent statements by televangelist Pat Robertson that it is OK for a man to not want to get involved with a woman whose children are adopted from foreign…
Baptist leader blasts adoption comment
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist seminary professor took strong exception to recent statements by televangelist Pat Robertson that it is OK for a man to not want to get involved with a woman whose children are adopted from foreign…
Longtime SC editor John Roberts dies
By Bob Allen John Roberts, the longest-serving editor in the history of The Baptist Courier, died Aug. 15, the South Carolina Baptist Convention news journal has reported. Roberts, 85, died at the Rolling Green Retirement Community in Greenville, S.C., following…
Longtime SC editor John Roberts dies
By Bob Allen John Roberts, the longest-serving editor in the history of The Baptist Courier, died Aug. 15, the South Carolina Baptist Convention news journal has reported. Roberts, 85, died at the Rolling Green Retirement Community in Greenville, S.C., following…
Longtime SC editor John Roberts dies
By Bob Allen John Roberts, the longest-serving editor in the history of The Baptist Courier, died Aug. 15, the South Carolina Baptist Convention news journal has reported. Roberts, 85, died at the Rolling Green Retirement Community in Greenville, S.C., following…
Police investigate IFB pastor
By Bob Allen An Indiana sheriff’s office is investigating a prominent independent Baptist pastor fired from his 15,000-member mega church for alleged sexual misconduct with an underage girl. First Baptist Church in Hammond, Ind., posted a news release on the…
Koinonia Farms plans Jordan symposium
By Bob Allen Last Sunday, July 29, would have been the 100th birthday of Clarence Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister — well known for his Cotton Patch Bible translation — who died in 1969. A month-long celebration of his legacy…
Peeping preacher suspect waives jury trial
By Bob Allen A former traveling Southern Baptist evangelist charged with felony video voyeurism in Mississippi waived his right to a jury trial July 27, leaving his fate in the hands of a judge. Sammy Nuckolls, once a popular speaker…
Jonathan Merritt admits gay relationship
By Bob Allen Southern Baptist author Jonathan Merritt admitted to a homosexual encounter in a blog interview July 26. Merritt, a culture writer for major newspapers and magazines and author of two books, told Ed Stetzer of LifeWay Research that…