(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news
Editor's note: DeeDee (Edea) Williams delivered this sermon at Jubilee Mennonite Church in Meridian, Miss., on July 3, 2005, during the United States' second war
FOR 17 YEARS, the Southern Baptist Convention has worked tirelessly to slow its decline. Now the struggling denomination seems to be trying to hasten it.