by Bob Allen | May 1, 2006 | News
The Alliance of Baptists went on record last week declaring itself “a self-consciously anti-racist group.” The Alliance, a 117-church organization started 19 years ago in a break with the Southern Baptist Convention, adopted a “call to...
by John E. Roberts | Dec 27, 2005 | Opinion
In September I took time off from my duties as an associate scholar at the Institute for Christian/Jewish Studies to represent the Alliance of Baptists along with 15 other Jewish and Christian leaders. We represented various religious communities in a peace mission to...
by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2005 | News
Reacting to fundamentalism in Southern Baptist-influenced state conventions in Brazil, about 60 Brazilian Baptists have started an organization modeled after the Alliance of Baptists in the United States, paving the way for what one observer viewed as a “global...
by Bob Allen | Apr 8, 2005 | News
The Alliance of Baptists moved its April 1-3 convocation from First Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C., to Furman University, because some members of the church objected to an openly lesbian minister preaching in the opening session. According to a report in the...
by Bob Allen | Apr 21, 2004 | News
The Alliance of Baptists has issued a statement decrying “the politicization of gay marriage” in the current presidential campaign and supporting all Americans’ rights to “full marriage equality.” The 115-church Alliance also elected a...