GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Question: Why do you always take two Baptists with you when you go fishing? Answer: Because if you only bring one, he'll drink all your beer. Most everybody who grew up in the South has a…
BWA delegation presses Vietnamese government on religious freedom
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist World Alliance-led delegation recently returned from Vietnam, where they pressed government officials to ensure greater religious freedom in the rapidly Westernizing nation. Though conditions for religious groups — especially Protestant groups — have…
Former mission board worker fights for NAMB support for ailing wife
WACO, Texas (ABP) — In his day, Nathan Porter jokes, he was the sex symbol of the Southern Baptist Convention. These days, he said, he's the sex symbol of the AARP. No matter. The tall 73-year-old Brazilian with blueberry eyes…
CBF leaders elect Rob Nash to global missions post
ATLANTA (ABP) — With a standing ovation, leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship unanimously approved Rob Nash as the group's new global missions coordinator June 21. The CBF Coordinating Council approved Nash to head up the organization's missionary force in…
Supreme Court agrees to expand scope of ‘partial-birth abortion’ case
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court said June 20 it will expand its review of a controversial federal abortion law. The justices agreed to hear a California case involving the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. They will consider, in…
Correction
In the June 14 ABP story “SBC sends Burleson dispute back to IMB trustees,” please correct the spelling of Robin Hadaway's name in the 15th paragraph. It is Hadaway, not Hattaway.
UPDATED: Amended abstinence resolution calls for all SBC trustees to be teetotalers
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Declaring “our total opposition to the … consuming of alcoholic beverages,” Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopted a strongly worded resolution on the issue June 14. Messengers adopted 15 resolutions presented by the SBC Resolutions Committee on…
SBC messengers ask for studies of execs’ perks, IMB turmoil
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Taking aim at issues ranging from SBC executives' perks, to Calvinism, from pandemics to what they should call homosexuals, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting presented a flurry of motions. In fact, 29 motions…
Will election of SBC president deal blow to neo-Calvinism?
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — When Southern Baptist Convention messengers elected dark-horse candidate Frank Page of South Carolina as president, they not only sent a populist message to the powerbrokers who backed other candidates, but also — at least in the…
Fish accentuates positive in NAMB report to SBC
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — After a rough spring, the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's domestic missionary agency tried to accentuate the positive in his annual report to the Southern Baptist Convention. Roy Fish, just-named interim president of the…
Baptist historians celebrate lives of public figures at meeting
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The lives of prominent Baptist public figures mighty and mediocre alike took center stage at the annual meeting of the Baptist History and Heritage Society June 1-3 in Washington. The society — for professional Baptist historians and…
Southern Baptist college association changes name, adopts global mission
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — Members of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools voted June 5 to change the name of the 51-member organization to the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities. The change came after the group…