Baptist Center for Ethics

President of Central Baptist Theological Seminary resigns due to ‘ethical lapse’

By Alejandra Molina and Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2020
(RNS) — The Rev. Molly T. Marshall said she offered her resignation at the beginning of the month ‘because of an ethical lapse that betrayed my stewardship of office.’

Baptist ethicist Robert Parham dead at 63

By Adelle M. Banks — March 6, 2017
(RNS) A moderate Baptist, he left a Southern Baptist Convention commission and started his ethics center in 1991 as the denomination grew more conservative in a resurgence that began about a decade earlier.

Chris Christie says “mistakes were made” in Bridgegate. Did he earn forgiveness?

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 9, 2014
Chris Christie, "humiliated" by liars on his staff, said “mistakes were made” in the George Washington Bridge traffic debacle. Isn't there a difference between mistakes and deliberate wrongdoing?

Southern Baptist heavyweight Richard Land in the fight of his life

By Bob Smietana — May 29, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) For the past 24 years, Richard Land has used his folksy charm and fiery rhetoric to become the public face of Southern Baptists. Now his future is in doubt, pending a probe of his remarks about the Trayvon Martin shooting and for alleged plagiarism. By Bob Smietana.

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