(Editor's note: This story is a republished version of one of four content items, originally posted on ABPnews.com on Sept. 16, that were lost due to a hacker attack on our website later that evening.) GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) – A move by…
A special note to ABPNews.com users
Dear users: We are contacting you to follow up on an alert e-mailed to ABPnews.com e-mail subscribers and shared on Facebook and Twitter yesterday regarding access to our website. We are pleased to report that as of Saturday, September 18, the…
Update: Ezell elected NAMB president on split vote
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) — Behind closed doors and by a reportedly divided vote, trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board after a…
Alabama CBF elects Ronnie Brewer new state coordinator
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — The Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has tapped a pastor and former campus minister as its new state coordinator. Ronnie and Janet Brewer Ronnie Brewer, senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Madison, Ala., was elected unanimously…
Mohler says he’s embarrassed by past support of women in ministry
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A seminary president who served on a committee that 10 years ago revised the Southern Baptist Convention's confessional document to declare that only men should be pastors told students Sept. 14 that he was embarrassed by…
American Baptist AIDS workers arrested in Zimbabwe
OAKLAND, Calif. (ABP) — Four American Baptist mission volunteers were released Sept. 13 on $200 worth of bond after spending three nights in jail on suspicion of dispensing AIDS medication without a license in Zimbabwe. The health workers — a…
Ezell elected NAMB president
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) — Trustees elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board after a four-hour called meeting Sept. 14. Ezell, pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., was a controversial choice,…
Interview: Kenneth Starr on Baylor’s challenges, Baptist relations
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WACO, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University will inaugurate Kenneth Starr as its 14th president Sept. 17. As Starr officially takes the helm of the world's largest Baptist institution of higher learning, the school faces a host of opportunities and challenges….
Broadway Baptist Church informs BGCT it will ‘discontinue’ relationship
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A historic Fort Worth church has cut off its 125-year-old relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, saying it doesn't want to be distracted by questions concerning the congregation's position on homosexuality. Broadway Baptist…