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5 Mar 2008, 1:55 pm
Speaking at the Criswell Theological Seminary in Dallas in late January, Southern Baptist Convention lobbyist Richard Land called U.S. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 7:47 pm
SNAP presented a letter Monday to Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members in Nashville, asking the group to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on sex abuse and to create an independent review board to investigate molestation reports. [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
During its annual meeting yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a lengthy resolution expressing the denomination's "continued opposition to and disappointment in the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to change its membership policy" to allow gays to become members of the Scouts. [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 8:01 pm by Howard Friedman
Baptist Press reported yesterday that the Justice Department has informed the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention that it has initiated an investigation that will involve multiple SBC entities. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 11:38 am
Here’s some news you might have missed in the holiday shuffle last week: Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has issued a press release calling for the end to an “imprecatory prayer” for President Barack Obama’s death. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 11:03 am
The Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) shift to the far right is a familiar and disconcerting story. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 8:42 am
Both men are Southern Baptists who are unhappy with the right-wing tilt of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 9:34 am
The group has presented a letter to Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members in Nashville, asking the group to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on clergy sexual abuse and to create an independent review board to investigate molestation reports. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 1:07 pm
The Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee (ERLC) recently presented their annual John Leland Religious Liberty Award to President George W. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 9:04 am
Earlier this month I criticized some offensive comments about health-care reform made by Richard Land, the top lobbyist for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). [read post]
21 Oct 2021, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Suit was filed this week in a Tennessee federal district court by Michael Stone, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor of a congregation in Georgia, against Russell Moore, former head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention. [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 8:39 am by Rob Boston
When I read about some of things the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has done over the years – calling for boycotts of Disney parks and products, passing resolutions telling wives to be submissive to husbands, bashing gay people, etc. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, (ND MS, April 22, 2019), a Mississippi federal district court dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds a defamation suit by a the former executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware (BCMD). [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 4:46 pm by constitutional lawblogger
Third in a Series: Guest Post by Versely Rosales, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, class of 2014 The brief submitted by National Association of Evangelicals; The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention;... [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 10:05 am by conn
I’d break out the champagne, but I fear that this is a mere change of personnel, not policy.The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was once a staunch supporter of church-state separation. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc., (ND MS, Jan. 18, 2018), a Mississippi federal district court rejected ministerial exception and ecclesiastical abstention defenses in a suit alleging intentional interference with business relationships, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 10:04 am
From the same group behind the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention that adopted this article of faith: “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Stop the Tax on Houses of Worship, by Russell Moore (Southern Baptist Convention): A little-noticed provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 now looms over faith communities in America, raising serious questions about religious freedom and the First Amendment. [read post]
25 Dec 2022, 5:00 am by Paul Caron
Russell Moore, a former senior official of the Southern Baptist Convention who is now editor in chief of... [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Southern Baptist Convention, June 1, 1998 Is it not baffling, then, that... [read post]