By Jeff Brumley A Baptist preacher in Georgia said months of exposure to television and online news reports about Pope Francis I just finally got to him. And that’s a good thing, said Barrett Owen, pastor of National Heights Baptist…
Baptist leader says pope soft on sin
By Bob Allen The head of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission says Pope Francis is soft on sin. Russell Moore, president of the moral-concerns agency for the nation’s second-largest faith group behind Catholicism, criticized the pope’s…
AWAB head applauds pope’s remarks
By Bob Allen The head of an organization that advocates for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons within Baptist communities of faith welcomed comments by Pope Francis saying the Catholic Church is too focused on gays,…
On the margins
By Bill Leonard “No amount of pacification will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes part of itself.” That’s what Pope Francis said July 25…
Baptists hopeful about new pope
By Jeff Brumley Baptists reacting to this week’s installation of Pope Francis voiced hope about his record for improving relations between Catholics and Protestants, his concern for the poor and the face he puts on the broader Christian community for non-believers. Alan Rudnick, pastor…
BWA to attend papal inauguration
By Bob Allen Leaders of the Baptist World Alliance offered congratulations to Pope Francis, elected the 266th head of the Catholic Church March 13, and announced plans to attend the new pope’s inauguration March 19 at the Vatican. “The BWA…
SBC leader denounces papacy
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist seminary president urged evangelicals not to get too caught up in all the excitement surrounding the naming of a new pope. “Evangelical Christians simply cannot accept the legitimacy of the papacy and must resist…