"I was appalled, " says Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission.
The Southern Baptist Convention itself has acknowledged this problem by approving an optional alternative name last summer: Great Commission Baptists.
The Reverend William Thornton who blogs on Southern Baptist Convention issues under the title SBC Plodder is the man.
The conduct of Lifeway and the Southern Baptist Convention is shameful, and they owe Hairston an apology for their actions.
Richard Land, an executive with the Southern Baptist Convention, said the proposed change wouldn't be acceptable to most in the church.
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She was angered by Lifeway's decision but made it clear that she didn't serve the bookstore or even the Southern Baptist Convention.
And though nondenominational churches are growing, the Southern Baptist Convention the nation's largest Protestant group has over 10, 000 students studying for ministry in six seminaries right now.
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I'm sure he feasted on positions of the Southern Baptist Convention.
These leaders then joined dozens of others from the tea party, the American Conservative Union, the Manhattan Institute, the Southern Baptist Convention and more to meet with Florida Sen.
According to those who wrote it, supporters including eight U.S. Catholic cardinals, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Church of God in Christ, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
We welcome the vocal support of the National Association of Evangelicals, Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, World Relief, Sojourners and others.
Roger Oldham, a spokesman for the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that holding off on a decision will give the Scouts time to analyze the implications of lifting the ban.
Mr. RICHARD LAND (Southern Baptist Convention): Clearly, he is opening the door there for evangelicals to understand him as saying I'm not claiming to be a Christian the way you believe in Christ.
Roger Oldham, a spokesman for the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, said holding off on a decision will give the Scouts time to analyze the legal and practical implications of lifting the ban.
"We're extremely hopeful that this bill will remain an immigration bill and not get tangled up with the issue of gay rights, " Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told reporters on a conference call.
Redemption Fellowship of Fall River is one of dozens of churches the Southern Baptist Convention has planted around New England in the last decade with a multi-million dollar push into territory skeptical of the South and increasingly indifferent to religion.
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