RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Clergy wellness means different things at different stages of a ministry, and ministers who come to Ministering to Ministers Foundation are at a point of personal or professional crisis. Charles Chandler began Ministering to Ministers after…
10 practices for ministerial health
CHICAG0 (ABP) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lists 10 best practices for ministerial health and wellness: • Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. • Love your neighbor as you love yourself — be an…
Healthy ministers, healthy churches
SAN FRANCISCO (ABP)—“You cannot go to church,” Christian philosopher Elton Trueblood once said. “You are the church wherever you go.” That is especially true if you are the pastor. While many people with high-demand occupations view Sunday worship as a…
Pastor charged with molestation
EUFALA, Okla. (ABP) – An Oklahoma community reacted with shock to the arrest of a respected Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting a teenage girl. Bruce Sanders, 48, pastor of North Fork Baptist Church in Eufala, Okla., pleaded not guilty…
BJC says Oklahoma Sharia ban unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (ABP) – A Baptist religious-liberty group joined Jewish, Islamic and civil-liberties organizations in urging an appellate court to uphold a ban on Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia law. The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief arguing…
Baptist recovery plans focus on mid-term aid
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist groups associated with the North American Baptist Fellowship are pouring into areas affected by deadly spring tornadoes and floods, at the same time they make longer view assessments of how best to help victim families rebuild…
Kimball clarifies how religion turns lethal
NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — Power corrupts, and when it accrues to religious leaders the combination of power and religion can turn lethal, says Middle East scholar Charles Kimball. Kimball, presidential professor and director of religious studies at the University of…
10 Ways to help overcome religious illiteracy
NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — In his book When Religion Becomes Lethal Middle East scholar Charles Kimball says significant numbers of Jews, Christians and Muslims view each other from a vast reservoir of ignorance. Most Americans, he said, know little about…
Ergun Caner moving to school begun by J. Frank Norris
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) – Ergun Caner, the former president of Liberty Theological Seminary demoted for exaggerating claims about his Muslim upbringing, has been hired as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Arlington Baptist College, according to a press…