Posts under ‘SBC issues’

For some time now, I have chosen not to comment on Grace and Truth to You. While I am standing by that decision, today’s post there demands a response. It is time that someone pointed out the absolute ridiculousness that is being promoted, and the personal animosity that makes the very name of the blog [...]

“There are a multitude of issues that have to be dealt with within the trustee framework that go way beyond the Baptist Faith and Message. … There are many things that the Baptist Faith and Message just simply doesn’t deal with.”
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Anyone care to guess?

The phrase “beat around the bush” has an interesting history, according to an online glossary of colloquialisms:

This expression goes all the way back to the 1500s when hunters hired people called beaters to drive small animals out of the bushes so the hunters could get a better shot at them. The problem for the beaters [...]

Wade Burleson has written a post today regarding an article in a Memphis newspaper about Bellevue Baptist Church’s mission work in India. His post contains the following paragraph (emphasis original):
Though I am not sympathetic with the anti-missionary viewpoint of the article’s author, I was struck by a little detail or two related to baptism and [...]

These photos are of soon-to-be-former Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione and Arbuckle Baptist Association (ABA) Director of Missions Terry Mott. I’ll let you figure out which is which. I first put this picture together several months ago, just for fun, but an opportunity has presented itself for me to make use of it [...]

Whereas the International Mission Board (IMB) exists for the purpose of leading Southern Baptists to be on mission with God to bring all peoples of the world to saving faith in Jesus Christ;
Whereas the trustees of the IMB are responsible for establishing overall policy and direction for the organization and conducting oversight of its [...]

The title of this post represents a practice in Southern Baptist life that has always concerned me. Contained within this phrase is the idea that a person’s membership in a local church somehow has its substance in a “letter” that can be moved from place to place. It is not a covenant relationship, but a [...]

In doing some research for a report I am to deliver to the Frisco Baptist Association at next week’s annual meeting, I read through some of the minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from their meetings in the eighteenth century. My last two posts on the subject of church membership and discipline (here and here) [...]

What do the following people/entities have in common?

Joe Trull
Alan Brehm
Molly Marshall
Sarah Francis Anders
Carolyn Clampett
Donna Forrester
Dellana O’Brien
Mary Alice Seals
Nancy Hastings Sehested
Lynn Williams
Pat and Carolyn Anderson
Joe and Carolyn Crumper
Diana and David Garland
Ron Hankins and Lydia Barrow-Hankins
The Baptist World Alliance
The Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia
Mary F. Lambert
Wade Burleson

Give up? Each person or entity in the above list has, [...]

If you’re a regular reader of SBC blogs, you know that a prominent group blog recently posted, without any corroboration, a letter supposedly written by an anonymous seminary professor which charged two of our seminary presidents with all manner of sinful behavior. The blog then tried to compare itself to an actual news organization that [...]