By Bob Allen Men and women in sexless marriages are asking for trouble, the president of the nation’s second-largest faith group behind Roman Catholics said in a sermon the week after the hacking of an online dating service exposed the…
SBC president declines to second-guess Glorieta sale
By Bob Allen Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd has turned down an Arkansas couple’s request that he appoint a special committee to investigate whether LifeWay Christian Resources trustees acted improperly in the 2013 sale of Glorieta Conference Center for…
What about those who are trans formed?
Things used to be so simple when it came to gender issues. Boys/men were males who liked girls/women and girls/women were females who liked boys/men or at least wanted a good one for a husband and breadwinner/caretaker. In all the…
SBC president calls for racial healing
By Bob Allen Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd urged members of America’s second-largest faith group behind Roman Catholics to reaffirm their opposition to racism and injustice in a Dec. 15 statement endorsed by ethnic leaders. “Southern Baptists have always…
Weighing in on border crisis, SBC president says Jesus was an immigrant
By Bob Allen The president of the Southern Baptist Convention says Jesus would be sympathetic to the plight of undocumented children flocking to the southern U.S. border, because as a child he also lived as an immigrant. Ronnie Floyd, senior…
SBC leader says border crisis ‘moral disgrace’
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist Convention official just back from a tour of two Texas facilities for migrant children said July 23 the young people he met there were no different from the kind of kids one might meet…
As SBC meeting wraps up, new president hopes for next ‘great awakening’
By Bob Allen The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention outlined an ambitious agenda during a press conference following his election June 10 in Baltimore. “I believe the greatest need in the Southern Baptist Convention, and quite honesly, the…
Ronnie Floyd elected SBC president
By Bob Allen An Arkansas pastor with a long record of denominational service has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Messengers to the June 10-11 SBC annual meeting chose Ronnie Floyd, 27-year pastor of Cross Church, formerly known…