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Al Mohler on the necessity of denominational transparency by Peter Lumpkins

Howell Scott, my friend and co-belligerent in many issues facing the Southern Baptist Convention raises some important questions concerning an article in SBC Life, a publication sponsored by the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention  >>>

Akin says media reports led to "misconceptions and misinterpretations" about weekend arrest of William "Billy" Birch by Peter Lumpkins

Cool, hip extremism is extremism just the same: 'snake handling vs 'seeing things' by Peter Lumpkins

Below are two videos. Both are nutty. Both are extreme. Both miserably represent the Christian faith. Both display Scripture abuse. Both claim biblical authority. Both reveal perversion. Both have representatives in evangelicalism. There is at least one difference. One is rejected as extreme nuttiness by virtually every sector of the Christian church. The other is accepted by a large portion of evangelicalism--including many Southern Baptists--as hip, cool, and doing a great work for God. Guess who is hip and cool and who are considered nuts  >>>

Lifeway responds to Christian Index editorial on "encroachment of Calvinism" by Peter Lumpkins

Update: especially note footnote #2 since I failed to account for a third public response from Marty King in the critique below   

In light of Al Mohler's recent encouragement to Southern Baptist editors to "cover Calvinism," I find it interesting that when Gerald Harris, editor of The Christian Index, placed his view in print, he was side-swiped by other entity-heads and leaders for describing an "encroaching Calvinism"  >>>

Danny Akin, Kevin Ezell, and other SBC leaders: Is Mark Driscoll the kind of leadership model Southern Baptists need? by Peter Lumpkins

Only recently, Mark Driscoll's new book on marriage landed him in controversy. Though advocating what can only be described as hedonistic underpinnings for human sexuality, Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, found himself defending yet once again his relationship with the hip Seattle pastor. Akin fully endorsed Driscoll's book but questions arising from the book's contents apparently pressured him into explaining (and qualifying) his curious endorsement of a monograph containing such provocative views like the moral acceptability of a___ s__  >>> 

Al Mohler vindicates Brad Whitt: "there is a creeping Presbyterianism amongst us" by Peter Lumpkins

Just about a year ago, Dr. Brad Whitt fired a shot heard in most sectors of the Southern Baptist Convention. Being a young South Carolina, Southern Baptist pastor, he just didn’t fit the mold of the young, restless, and reformed travelling around the country by the tens of thousands (literally) to hear all the cool, calm, Calvinist speakers at the latest Passion, T4G, TGC, SGM, YRR conferences  >>>

SBC name change: it's good...it's bad...it's ugly (part II) by Peter Lumpkins

Summarizing Part I, I explained the good, the bad, and some of the ugly stemming from this last attempt to change our name spawned by SBC president, Bryant Wright's appointing  of a "task force" to study the name change last September (2011). As for the good, "Great Commission Baptists" (GCB) surely captures the ideal of what and whom Southern Baptists have been throughout their history. From the moment of our beginnings in 1845, Southern Baptists have been, at their best moments, about carrying out the Great Commission of our Lord. Few, if any, imagined arguments could usurp this proposition  >>>

Does Lifeway's decision to sell the NNIV fly in the face of the SBC? by Peter Lumpkins

Marty King reported last week that Lifeway would continue selling the new New International Version of Scripture even after the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Phoenix, Az. past a resolution against it. A special task force assigned by Lifeway made the recommendation to the full board of trustees to continue selling the disputed volume¹  >>>

Gerald Harris, Al Mohler, and Baptist Press by Peter Lumpkins

Baptist Press assistant editor, Erin Roach, composed a response to Gerald Harris, editor of The Christian Index, Georgia Baptists' state paper.¹ Harris published an editorial opinion in The Index entitled, "The Calvinists are here" a piece Roach cited several times. Reactions were included in Roach's piece from various SBC leaders, including Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary >>>

Is Baptist Press a religious version of CNN? One lawyer-turned-pastor thinks it is by Peter Lumpkins

New Mexico pastor Howell Scott has a post worth your time. "Baptist Press: the CNN of the Baptist World!" is an enlightening commentary on a piece composed by Erin Roach, assistant editor of Baptist Press  >>>

Gerald Harris: WANTED: DEAD or ALIVE (mostly dead) by Peter Lumpkins

Last Thursday, The Christian Index editor, Gerald Harris became a hunted man. His literary crime was posting his personal opinion concerning what he perceives as an unusual rise of Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention and to do so--gulp, gulp--in his personal opinion editorial column of The Christian Index  >>>

Task Force proposes names for the "new and improved" Southern Baptist Convention by Peter Lumpkins

Sources close to the name change task force initiated by SBC president, Bryant Wright reveal some interesting possibilities which may be presented to the Executive Committee  >>>

Send North America: Who’s coming to St. Louis? NAMB or Acts 29? by Mary England

As a life-long St. Louisan I read with interest the recent Baptist Press article about NAMB's plan to plant 75 new churches in the St. Louis Metro Area. My initial thoughts were; where are they going to plant new churches, what about the struggling existing churches, and what kind of new churches?  >>>

SBC Tomorrow welcomes back Mary England as Guest Contributor*

Baptist Theologian explains "Radical Reformation Day" by Peter Lumpkins

Dr. Malcolm Yarnell is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Director of the Oxford Study Program, Director of the Center for Theological Research, and Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology. Dr. Yarnell also authored, contributed to and/or edited several published works including his enlightening monograph on The Formation of Christian Doctrine. In a recent Baptist Press article entitled "Why we celebrate Radical Reformation Day" he explains its significance for Southern Baptists  >>>

We are right and you must agree by Guest Contributor, William “Bill” Harrell

SBC Tomorrow welcomes William Harrell as guest contributor*

With the recent public lament uttered by Dr. Frank Page, President of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), wherein he publicized the contention between Calvinism and non-Calvinism in the SBC and the disruption he’s noted around the convention over the Calvinism issue, coupled with Dr. Al Mohler’s controversial words in an interview about the new Calvinism—an interview in which Mohler fairly well dissed all other theological options other than the “Reformed” view which he embraces and promotes at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I thought it good to publish the following piece by William “Bill” Harrell. Some will be angered; others will be edified; some like our EC president will agree it’s needed  >>>