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21 Dec 2007, 7:42 am
Assuming that Romney’s delegates are more Mormon than his overall universe of support and that Huckabee’s delegates are more Southern Baptist than his overall universe of support, and that Ron Paul’s delegates are…well…the most enthusiastic and dedicated of Ron Paul’s supporters…the Minneapolis conventions is going to be a assembly of the cultural fringe. [read post]
21 Dec 2013, 5:55 pm
It granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement against all nonprofit religious organizations that provide benefits to employees through health plans sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention's GuideStone Financial Resources. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 4:00 am
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 12:08 pm
calls the faithful to pray for the death of the people who filed an IRS complaint against him.... [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 1:43 pm
Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention in the wake of its clergy sexual abuse crisis. [read post]
20 May 2008, 9:41 am
Llew Gibbons and I were invited to lecture at new college located in the southern China city of Zhuhai called United International College.It was started 3 years ago as an offshoot of Hong Kong Baptist University, in cooperation with Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 4:00 am
Last Friday, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, Richard Land, withdrew from the interfaith Coalition, explaining: “While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is 'a… [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 6:30 am
The brief, filed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; National Association of Evangelicals; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod argues:Undermining the husband-wife marital institution by redefining it to include same-sex couples will, in the long term, harm vital child-welfare interests that only the husband-wife definition… [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 1:46 pm
"Johnson served as a trustee of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission within the Southern Baptist Convention from 2004 to 2012.Johnson came to some prominence in the late 1990s when he and his wife appeared on national television to represent Louisiana's newly passed marriage covenant laws, which made divorce more difficult legally.Louisiana House of RepresentativesAfter the 8th District seat was vacated in 2015, Johnson ran for the position unopposed....In… [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 3:28 pm
Given that the state slashed funding for vocational and traditional education in Texas prisons this year, it seems counter-intuitive that a new religious seminary will open Monday in the Darrington Unit giving four-year religious degrees (from my preacher-brother's alma mater at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, no less), but that's what's happening according to this item in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:Texas' newest seminary will launch Monday -- inside a… [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 6:10 am
Among the groups sending people into China were Awaken Generation, the Southern Baptist Convention, and Youth With A Mission. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 6:44 am
EEOCDocket: 10-553Issue(s): Whether the ministerial exception, which prohibits most employment-related lawsuits against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions, applies to a teacher at a religious elementary school who teaches the full secular curriculum, but also teaches daily religion classes, is a commissioned minister, and regularly leads students in prayer and worship.Certiorari-Stage Documents:Opinion below (6th Cir.)Petition for certiorariAmicus brief of religious… [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 7:13 am
In attendance were representatives Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas), Leo Berman (R-Tyler), and Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball), senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio), former state demographer Steve Murdock, and Richard Land, the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 8:07 am
06/19/2008Elects Orlando's Randall James as chairmanThe Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee passed a recommendation June 9 urging churches to screen prospective volunteers and employees with the U.S. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 5:54 am
Sonny Perdue told messengers June 15 at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 4:05 am
Conference of Catholic Bishops; Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations; National Association of Evangelicals; Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod; and Christian Legal Society argues in part:Major religious traditions—including those represented by amici—share the belief that a person’s identity as male or female is… [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 6:00 am
Luis Cortés, President, Esperanza • Barrett Duke, Southern Baptist Convention • Bishop Orlando Findlayter, Senior Pastor, New Hope Christian Fellowship • Archbishop José Horacio Gomez, Archdiocese of Los Angeles • Mark Hetfield, President and CEO, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society • Rev. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 2:26 pm
In a recent post by Russ Rankin at churchexecutive.com entitled "Survey: Most SBC pastors not prepared to die", it was reported that almost 40 percent of pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention have no estate planning documents. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 5:04 pm
Michael Cromartie is Vice President at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he directs both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Religion & the Media programs.The Reverend Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Preeta Bansal , a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, were elected to serve as vice-chairs.According to the Commission, the U.S. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 9:02 am
Last week Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said of the mayor's decision on who would participate in the ceremony: "Unfortunately Mayor Bloomberg's decision demonstrates the mindless secularist prejudice of the political establishment on our nation's Eastern Seaboard. [read post]
