It was a great privilege to have Dr. Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, speak at our Founders Breakfast last week in Louisville. God has raised up Dr. Akin to give strategic and principled leadership to Southern Baptists at this crucial juncture of our history. Pray for…
The 2009 Southern Baptist Convention may well go down as the one that has left me the most hopeful…ever. My first convention was 1979 when Adrian Rogers was first elected President and the “Conservative Resurgence” (CR) officially began. I am grateful for that movement because it inhibited the slide…
Dr. Al Mohler’s motion to commission a task force passed tonight at the Southern Baptist Convention. Specifically, the motion requests that the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting June 23-24, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky, authorize the President of the Southern Baptist Convention to appoint a Great Commission Task Force charged to…
The issue that looms large for the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, Kentucky is the announced Great Commission Resurgence and the anticipated move by President Johnny Hunt to appoint a committee to study the overall structure of the convention. The document calling for a GCR has garnered widespread…
Founders Press is pleased to announce two new titles from two of the world’s premier Baptist historians. Basil Manly, Sr. and his son Basil Manly, Jr. played vital roles in shaping a number of the central institutions of the Southern Baptist community in its formative years in the nineteenth…
What others are saying about the book What a strange mixture of glory and corruption in fallen man; what incongruities exist in the affections and perceptions of the regenerate soul! This introduction to the piety of the Senior and Junior Basil Manly is a fascinating, moving, and shocking look…