Lee Porter a former Southern Baptist Convention leader who worked to ensure the integrity of voting in contentious ballots for the SBC presidency during a tumultuous era in the nation’s second-largest religious body, died May 17. He was 83
A former Southern Baptist Convention official was arrested May 4 for kneeling and praying outside the White House on behalf of blind Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng.
A former Southern Baptist Convention officer called the murder of a controversial abortion provider in Kansas an answer to prayer, and he told a talk show host he also is praying for President Obama to die. An SBC official insists most Southern Baptist are
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By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor OSAGE BEACH — For the first time in nine years, messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting have rejected a slate of officers closely identified with Project 1000, a successful strategy to take control of the state convention.