Stories tagged with: peace

• Charles Fuller, SBC Peace Committee chair, dies

  by David Roach, posted Monday, July 30, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  ROANOKE, Va. (BP) -- Charles Fuller, a Virginia pastor who chaired the Southern Baptist Convention's Peace Committee, died July 28 in Roanoke, Va. He was 86.

  Formed in 1985 in response to a motion at the SBC annual meeting, the Peace Committee was charged to "seek to determine the sources" of controversy amid the convention's Conservative Resurgence and "make findings and recommendations." Fuller was thought a natural fit to chair the 22-member group -- which comprised conservatives, moderates and centrists -- because he was theologically conservative and committed to the SBC but not part of the Conservative Resurgence's "machinery," as Fuller put it. Read More

• SBC Peace Committee's legacy discussed 30 years later

  by David Roach, posted Monday, June 12, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Thirty years after the Southern Baptist Convention Peace Committee delivered its major report to the convention, Baptists hold a range of views on the committee's significance.

  Some claim it played a positive role in advancing the SBC's Conservative Resurgence. Others say it helped calm the denominational conflict. Still others have called it a public relations scheme to appease moderates while theological conservatives solidified their control of the convention's committees and boards. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The Christ of Christmas Future

  by David Jeremiah, posted Monday, December 21, 2015 (8 years ago)

  David Jeremiah points to the source of peace that eluded the miserable, lonely Ebenezer Scrooge. Jesus, the Prince of Peace, provides "peace in the present and a glorious hope for the future," Jeremiah writes. Read More

• Boko Haram exceeds ISIS in terrorism deaths

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, November 20, 2015 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) –- Boko Haram has become the most deadly terrorist group in the world, killing more people in terrorist attacks in 2014 than ISIS, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Peace that passes understanding

  by David Jeremiah, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

  California pastor David Jeremiah examines Philippians 4:9 -- "a 24-word solution to 24-hour anxiety" in the Bible that teaches how God's peace overcomes uncertainty, worry and anxiety. Read More