JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Wayne Stacy, dean of the divinity school at Gardner-Webb University, is expected to leave to become pastor of a church in Florida. Stacy, 53, will be recommended Jan. 11 to lead Southside Baptist Church in Jacksonville,…
Special court will hear Moore case after Alabama justices recuse selves
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ABP) — A specially appointed judicial panel, led by a former Alabama governor, will hear Roy Moore's appeal after Moore's former state Supreme Court justices withdrew from the case. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) announced Dec. 16 that…
Baptists going to Super Bowl, with or without tickets
HOUSTON (ABP) — The Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans may not make it to the Super Bowl this year, but Texas Baptists plan to be there anyway. They hope to share the gospel with many of the 200,000 people, including…
Annual State Department report lists religious-freedom violators
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The State Department's annual report on the status of religious freedom across the globe is out, and its chief villains have some familiar faces. According to the report, released Dec. 18, China, Burma and North Korea remain…
China detains two for supporting unofficial Christian churches
GLENSIDE, Pa. (ABP) — Government officials in China have detained a computer technician, Zhang Shengqi, and a church historian, Liu Fenggang, and placed them in jail for posting articles on the Internet in support of the unofficial Chinese Christian church….
Some Churches of Christ re-examine tradition of instrument-free worship
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — The raging debate over worship music has surfaced in a most unlikely place — within the Churches of Christ, which bear the historical distinction of shunning all musical instruments in worship. Over the past two…
Three disparate schools claim legacy of enigmatic B. H. Carroll
DALLAS (ABP) — Three drastically different ministerial schools in Texas claim to be in the tradition of B. H. Carroll, a towering figure in Baptist life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ironically, all three are right to…
Texas missions network hires Frank Dang, Carol Childress
DALLAS (ABP) – WorldconneX, the new Texas Baptist missions network, added two part-time staff members, adopted a preliminary budget for 2004 and rented office space near downtown Dallas. Meeting in Dallas on Dec. 9, the network's administrative committee selected Frank…
Moscow seminary president sees school influencing Eastern Europe
ABILENE, Texas (ABP) — With a ministry field spanning 11 time zones, the task facing Alexander Kozynko and his Russian Baptist seminary is enormous. So he is looking for help from Baptist brethren in the United States. Russia is home…