The Fundamentals of Cooperating Conservatives  
They said it couldn’t be done. Religious scholars and well-known pastors said it couldn’t be done. Historians and futurists said it couldn’t be done. Denominational leaders said it couldn’t be done. Liberals believed that no band of Bible-thumping preachers, professors, and laymen could ever be used of God to return a denomination to its conservative roots. Read More...

Statement of the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention  
June 10, 2008
Indianapolis, IN, June 10, 2008 – As Southern Baptists, we have much for which to be thankful. Our pastors preach the Word of God with power. Our churches witness effectively to the unsaved in cities and communities throughout the country. God continues to call many of our young people to the mission fields of the world; a new strategy for evangelizing the United States has been launched. Our seminaries excel in teaching new theologians and training new pastors. Our moral and religious liberty convictions are well represented in the public square. Our publications are some of the finest Bible study materials in the world.  Read More...

Bush thanks Southern Baptists for prayer in meeting with Page, Chapman at White House  
October 12, 2006
WASHINGTON (BP)--Prayer was the topic of conversation when the president of the Southern Baptist Convention met with the president of the United States Oct. 11.  Read More...

FIRST PERSON – Courteous, Cautious, and Caring in Speech  
July 30, 1999
I recently gave a statement to SBCoutpost.com, a web site upon which a small group of young Southern Baptist bloggers regularly contribute their opinions about a number of issues in the Southern Baptist Convention. Almost immediately thereafter, my statement was removed because the predicate upon which I offered it (a more-Christlike tone in the exchange of ideas) was not satisfied. I was careful to assure that my comments were removed, and having done so, considered the matter closed.  Read More...

A Democracy Jimmy Carter Cannot Support  
November 11, 2005
Jimmy Carter, the globetrotting ex-president, spends a great deal of his time promoting democracy, as he sees it, around the world. Interestingly, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest evangelical fellowship of churches in America, functions as a democracy. What is surprising is that a man who professes to be devoted to democracy, and travels the world as the champion of democracy, decries the same democracy when it is faithfully exercised by Southern Baptists to declare our values. Read More...

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