The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has initiated a strategic effort to leverage the current Republican majorities in Congress and the executive branch to defund Planned Parenthood by eliminating the organization’s federal funding... read more

A recent New York Times opinion piece titled “The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention,” penned by Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter, has a headline that should arrest the reader’s attention because it is, if anything, an understatement... read more

This past Christmas was truly memorable as my wife Tera and I welcomed our children, their spouses and our five grandchildren into our home in Georgia, with the last of them leaving on Christmas Day. The following morning, we continued packing, and I spent my first night at the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina’s (BCH) Mills Home campus on Dec... read more

Baptists seldom go through the effort of preparing a confession of faith unless pressured or prodded, which may explain why the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) waited 80 years to adopt one.  In the mid-19th century, pressure began mounting, which developed into what became known as the Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy in the early 20th century... read more