Posts Tagged ‘Southern Baptist’
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Richard Land, controversial Southern Baptist leader, gets a new job
(RNS) Richard Land, the evangelical culture warrior who was set to leave his job with the Southern Baptists after a series of controversies, will step down early to take over as head of a seminary in North Carolina that focuses...
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Russell Moore tapped to lead Southern Baptists’ policy office
Russell Moore, the dean of theology at the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary, has been named the next president of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
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Southern Baptist leader Richard Land to retire after ethics probe
Richard Land, the man who became the public face of the Southern Baptist Convention on ethical and political issues for nearly 25 years, has announced plans to retire in 2013 after a rough-and-tumble spring.
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Southern Baptists’ Richard Land loses show, keeps job
A top Southern Baptist official who was accused of plagiarism in a radio segment that claimed civil rights leaders and President Obama used the Trayvon Martin case to stir racial tensions will lose his weekly call-in program bu...
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After meeting with black Southern Baptists, Richard Land apologizes again
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has issued a lengthy public apology for his racially charged comments about the Trayvon Martin case, and said he has sent a personal letter to President Obama seeking forgiveness.
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Southern Baptist leader says Obama, black leaders, exploiting Trayvon Martin for votes
(RNS) A top Southern Baptist official has accused President Obama and black civil rights activists of using the Trayvon Martin shooting to foment racial strife and boost the president’s re-election chances. Richard Land is pre...
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Pastor poised to be first black to lead Baptists
After months of urging from other Baptists around the country, the Rev. Fred Luter told his African-American congregation that he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern Baptist Conventi...
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Southern Baptist leader nixes yoga, both in whole and in part
A Southern Baptist church leader said recently that Christians should not practice yoga, should not do the stretching exercises of yoga, and should not replace the spiritual aspect of yoga with Christian thought and scripture. ...
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Fastest death rate of churches is in the Bible Belt
The fastest death rate of churches in America is happening in the Bible belt, said a southern US pastor at a 3-day convention that was held recently, according to Christian Today (CT). At Advance10: Contextualizing the Gospel i...
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Liberty University investigates its seminary president, ‘former Muslim’, Falwell protege Ergun Cane
Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia—the world’s largest Christian university–announced recently that they have formed a committee to investigate the background of their seminary president Ergun Caner, the Washington...
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