Springfield | The highlight of the event may have been having a photo made with the outgoing President of the Southern Baptist Convention, dressed in his Texas flag shirt and cowboy hat, standing next to a cardboard cutout of a cow like those he raises back home in Farmersville. More likely it was the opportunity […]
We need another Blackaby
The lights went down in Georgia Dome and hushed the crowd. More than 20,000 were in attendance for the Southern Baptist Convention in June 1995. Out of the darkness, the lights beamed behind a lone figure on the platform, a kind of clumpy gray-haired man in a dark suit. The crowd gasped. It was Henry […]
All ayes for Iorg: Seminary president takes top SBC post
Dallas, Texas | Jeff Iorg’s election as President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee March 21 came with sighs of relief across the Convention and in Illinois, where EC Trustee Adron Robinson had led the first attempts to find a captain for the listing denomination. “He’ll do a good job of restoring integrity to […]
Uptown Church rides gospel wave
It started as a weekday worship service to their community, then it exploded as migrants arrived in Chicago. “We’re riding the wave,” Pastor Nick Kim said of the swell of new residents who turned out for a Wednesday morning service. Kim referred to the surfing language used by famed pastor and church planter Henry Blackaby […]
Iorg nomination is a game-changer
Nashville, Tenn. | If Southern Baptists believed in the “Hail Mary” pass—that long bomb to the endzone that, if caught, just might save the game—this would be ours. Jeff Iorg will be nominated to head the beleaguered SBC Executive Committee after two and one-half years without a permanent President and CEO. The surprise announcement came […]
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