by Bob Allen | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Former Vice President Al Gore challenged 2,500 fellow Baptists at a Thursday luncheon with prophetic zeal to take up the mantle of reversing global warming. Speaking to a luncheon crowd at this week’s New Baptist Covenant Celebration, Gore recalled words of an...
by Darrell Gwaltney | Aug 16, 2007 | Opinion
Poverty and wealth are always about political, cultural and economic relationships, and Jesus announces that he will bring a new relationship to the poor. Jesus’ choice of biblical text acts as a declaration of purpose for his ministry. The term good news first...
by Robert Parham | May 29, 2007 | Opinion
Herb Reynolds envisioned nine years ago a forerunner of the New Baptist Covenant, a 2008 gathering of Baptists in North America. The former Baylor University president called his vision the Baptist Convention of the Americas. Missing from the accolades in news stories...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 15, 2007 | Opinion
Following the announcement of “Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant,” several Southern Baptist leaders offered their criticism of the planned gathering and argued that Baptists do not have an image problem. Perhaps the SBC leader whose comments were the...
