Month: July 2017

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) Texas Baptists Committed – and I personally – owe some thank yous as we say goodbye. I know I’ll overlook someone, and I apologize for that, but I want to make my best effort to thank those who have played an especially significant role in Read more . . .

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) As this incredible part of my journey, as executive director of Texas Baptists Committed, comes to a close, I want to share with friends and TBC supporters a little about the faith journey that has led me to this point – or, more accurately, the Read more . . .

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) In the 1990s, David Currie and Texas Baptists Committed fought tooth-and-nail to keep Texas Baptists free to be faithful. As the Fundamentalists, in the late 1980s, neared their goal of achieving full control of the Southern Baptist Convention, they set their sights on the Baptist Read more . . .

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) Lawrence Ware, Baptist pastor and co-director of the Center for Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University, was deeply offended by the hesitancy of the voting delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution condemning the Alt-Right political movement with its racist, white supremacist ideology. After some Read more . . .

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) With this blog post, I am announcing that – after almost three decades – Texas Baptists Committed will cease operations at the end of July 2017. Our Board of Directors voted yesterday, Friday, July 7. In January 2016, the TBC Board and I convened a Read more . . .

(Originally published on the Texas Baptists Committed blog at texasbaptistscommitted.blogspot.com.) As we approach the end of the active ministry of Texas Baptists Committed, it’s helpful to look at its history and recall its impact. For a detailed history of the origins of Texas Baptists Committed, I refer you to “The History of Baptists Committed,” by Jimmy Read more . . .