• Thank God for Tim Russert

  Like many folks across the nation, the death of Tim Russert touched me deeply. A week and a half later, fresh comments and insights still abound in newspapers and magazines…

  06/23/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Civil rights hero receives Whitsitt courage award

  Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the last remaining lions of the Civil Rights movement, received the Whitsitt Courage Award in Memphis, Tenn., June 19. The award honors individuals who demonstrate “Baptist…

  06/19/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Baptists need national sex-offender database

  The Southern Baptist Convention missed a great opportunity to protect its members when the SBC Executive Committee declined to create a sexual-offender database. Executive Committee President Morris Chapman cited “belief…

  06/16/2008 - By Marv Knox

• How to honor Billy Kim

  The Southern Baptist Convention leaders’ lips may have said, “We love you,” but their budget proposal told Billy Kim something entirely different. During the Executive Committee report at the convention’s…

  06/12/2008 - By Marv Knox

• The Hunt Paradox: “Radical Change” & Unity

  Johnny Hunt, the Southern Baptist Convention’s new president, presents a paradoxical picture. He’s an ultimate insider calling for “radical change” within the SBC. No wonder he’s calling for change. Its…

  06/11/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Dykes receives top cooperation award

  David Dykes, longtime pastor of Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas, received the Southern Baptist Convention’s highest award for cooperation during the SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis. Dykes accepted…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Well, that never happened before

  The initial vote for the Southern Baptist Convention’s second vice president resulted in a tie. John Newland, pastor of Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis, and Doug Mulkey, pastor of…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Merry Christmas, Israel

  Southern Baptists celebrated the state Israel’s 60th anniversary and called on Christians to “use their influence to restore Christmas to its proper place in the culture” during the Southern Baptist…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• SBC motions, motions, motions

  The Southern Baptist Convention will consider rejoining the Baptist World Alliance, removing churches that hire women pastors and restricting agency heads from serving as SBC president. Messengers presented those and…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Hunt, Henard, Newland to lead SBC

  Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Johnny Hunt topped a six-candidate field to win the Southern Baptist Convention presidency June 10. Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., received 3,100 votes,…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• A batch of motions & etc.

  Messengers to the SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis took the advice of the convention’s order-of-business committee and referred five motions to SBC agencies and institutions June 10. They also allowed…

  06/10/2008 - By Marv Knox

• Live from the SBC

  The Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting is being held in Indianapolis this week. As of 9 a.m. Tuesday—opening day of the meeting—6,335 messengers had registered. The big news today will…

  06/09/2008 - By Marv Knox