Mo. Peace Committee issues report
ST. LOUIS (BP)–The six Missouri Baptist conservative leaders who make up the Peace Committee have concluded they need a mediator. Although the committee was unanimous in adopting its report to the Missouri Baptist Convention, it noted in the last of its five points that it is at an impasse and will ask Peacemaker Ministries, based […]
Nominees abound at Mo. convention
ST. LOUIS (BP)–A total of 13 candidates vied for office during the Missouri Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, even though the messenger registration total, 1,058, was the lowest in 36 years. Officially, the two warring factions, Save Our Convention and the Missouri Baptist Laymen’s Association, did not nominate candidates during the Oct. 27-29 gathering at St. […]
Royals’ Hillman holds on to faith
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--The new manager of the Kansas City Royals is a Southern Baptist who has been walking with the Lord for more than three decades.
‘Peace committee’ within MBC formed
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)–John Marshall and Jay Scribner had been good friends, but last year they wound up on opposite sides of denominational politics. They decided to run for officer positions on opposing tickets at the 173rd annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention. Marshall, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo., was elected […]
WRAP-UP: Mo. messengers rebuff Project 1000 leaders
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (BP)--Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention elected a new president in a battle among conservatives over the direction of the convention during their Oct. 29-31 annual meeting in Osage Beach.
‘Successful leaders model godliness’
SAN ANTONIO (BP)–Everything rises or falls on leadership, Paul Dixon, chancellor of Cedarville University in Ohio, said during a breakout session of the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference in San Antonio June 11. Dixon, a former 25-year president of the university, spoke on the topic “Equipped for Relational Leadership” by relaying anecdotes, Scripture references and personal […]
Dred Scott case offers hope for opponents
of Roe v. Wade, Scott’s descendant says
ST. LOUIS (BP)--The great-great granddaughter of Dred Scott is using her heritage to proclaim the rights of unborn babies to be counted as full individuals, with some pro-life advocates hopeful that just as the Dred Scott decision was overturned, Roe v. Wade may eventually face a similar fate.
On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the landmark Dred Scott decision, ruling that the drafters of the Constitution had viewed all blacks as “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
Mo. convention disqualifies 19 churches, challenges Wal-Mart
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (BP)--Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention elected a slate of theologically conservative officers for the 10th consecutive year and disqualified 19 churches under the convention’s single-alignment stipulation approved at last year’s annual meeting.
The late Adrian Rogers continues to inspire
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| Jimmy Draper, retired president of LifeWay Christian Resources, prays for Joyce Rogers, widow of Adrian Rogers, the late pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., during the Past Presidents Memorial June 13 at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C. Photo by Matt Miller |
In the first video tribute, Rogers was shown in various stages of his 33-year pulpit ministry at the suburban Memphis church. The video ended with Rogers stating in his distinctively deep voice that “the burning ambition in my heart is to finish well.”
Missouri Baptists strengthen ties to SBC, MBC
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (BP)--Messengers to the 171st annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention Oct. 24-26 elected for the ninth consecutive year a slate of theologically conservative officers and overwhelmingly approved single alignment, the series of interdependent changes to the MBC Constitution that leading conservatives say will promote theological integrity and unity within Missouri Southern Baptist life.
