KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (ABP) — The board of American Baptists’ National Ministries met Nov. 12-13 to consider cuts to cover a $1 million gap between the organization’s income and expenses. According to American Baptist News Service, National Ministries Executive…
Georgia Baptists reject church with woman pastor
Julie Pennington Russell preached a sermon at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration earlier this year in Atlanta. JONESBORO, Ga. (ABP) — The Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to refuse gifts from a historic member church that last year called a…
Georgia Baptists reject church with woman pastor
Julie Pennington Russell preached a sermon at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration earlier this year in Atlanta. JONESBORO, Ga. (ABP) — The Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to refuse gifts from a historic member church that last year called…
West Virginia Southern Baptists
support marriage amendment
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (ABP) — The West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists passed a resolution Nov. 7 calling on church members to support an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage.The resolution called on members to “avail ourselves of…
Religious leaders ask Obama
to ban torture through order
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A multi-faith coalition of more than 200 religious organizations is calling on President-elect Barack Obama to, as one of his first acts in office, sign an executive order banning torture.“This is an opportunity where one individual could…
Continued investigation sheds light
on Baylor Election Day incidents
WACO, Texas (ABP) — According to Baylor University officials, continuing investigations into three Election Day incidents on campus revealed two apparently were not racially motivated as originally suspected.In a Nov. 13 letter to students, faculty and staff, Baylor Interim President…
Baptist state conventions
cope with budget woes
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Southern Baptist state conventions meeting around the country this fall are adjusting their finances to cope with a weakening economy.In the opening session of the Nov. 11-12 Tennessee Baptist Convention annual meeting, Executive Director James Porch…
North Carolina Baptists nix plan
that forwarded gifts to CBF
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — North Carolina Baptist churches soon won’t be able to support the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through the state convention, messengers decided at their annual meeting Nov. 12.The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted to kill that…
Baylor officials continue investigation
of election-related campus incidents
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University officials said they are continuing investigations into two Nov. 4 election-related campus incidents with racial overtones, but that they found no evidence supporting a third. President David Garland wrote a Nov. 7 letter updating…
CBF provides $10,000 in relief
for escalating crisis in Congo
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has given $10,000 to ease the growing humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where increased violence from rebel fighters is killing thousands of civilians and forcing even more to flee to…
Equality Riders arrested at Union University
JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Three Christian gay-rights activists were arrested Nov. 10 on the campus of Southern Baptist-affiliated Union University. The arrests occurred during the next-to-last stop on the 2008 Equality Ride, an outreach bus tour of 15 religious schools…
Equality Riders arrested
at Union University
JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Three Christian gay-rights activists were arrested Nov. 10 on the campus of Southern Baptist-affiliated Union University. The arrests occurred during the next-to-last stop on the 2008 Equality Ride, an outreach bus tour of 15 religious schools…