Freddie Gage, a Southern Baptist evangelist for more than 60 years whose fervency for souls extended to the SBC’s Conservative Resurgence, died Friday (Sept. 12) in a Houston hospital after an extended illness. He was 81. Gage — a teen gang leader who came to Christ after hearing the Gospel preached in 1951 in Houston […]
S. Truett Cathy, founder of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain famous for closing on Sundays, died Sept. 8. He was 93. “I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities,” Cathy once said. “Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of […]
Arkansas pastor Ronnie Floyd will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the SBC annual meeting this June, seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. announced Feb. 20. Floyd has “unparalleled experience as a leader among us, an unquestioned commitment to the Great Commission, and he has demonstrated an unstinting urgency to unite […]
The suicide of Matthew Warren continues to reverberate not only in Christian circles but the culture which his parents, Rick and Kay Warren, have sought to impact since the founding of Saddleback Church in 1980. Matthew Warren, 27, died on the morning of April 5 at his home in Mission Viejo, Calif.
>State Baptist convention and North American Mission Board leaders “have determined to move forward together in unity to impact the lostness of North America,” according to a statement issued Sept. 14.
An advisory team on the issue of Calvinism met 'to listen, to learn and to hope,? SBC Executive Committee president Frank Page reported after the 16-member group met Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn.
The potential sale of LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center has turned from the Baptist Convention of New Mexico to a California-based Christian school, Olivet University.
The potential sale of LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center has turned from the Baptist Convention of New Mexico to a California-based Christian school, Olivet University.
Two reprimands have been issued to Richard Land by the trustee executive committee of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The ERLC trustee executive committee also is terminating Land's weekly call-in radio show ? the venue where Land made comments about the Trayvon Martin killing that ignited intense controversy, prompting the formation of a trustee ad hoc investigative committee.
An Arkansas pastor has become chairman of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission after the resignation of a retired Indiana minister who was leading the Southern Baptist entity's trustee board.