Editor's note: This story was changed July 4 to correct an error in the 10th paragraph. WASHINGTON (ABP) — A landmark Supreme Court ruling June 28 that said possessing a handgun is a constitutional right is expected to unleash a…
Canadian Baptist Ministries appoints first non-Anglo general secretary
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (ABP) — Leaders of Canada’s largest Baptist body have, for the first time, appointed a non-Caucasian to their top executive post as they bid farewell to their leader of 10 years. Sam Chaise (CBM photo) Canadian Baptist Ministries…
Former WMU leader receives courage award
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — With the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship unable to appoint fully funded missionaries for several years and facing the possibility of calling field personnel home unless gifts to its annual Offering for Global Missions increase, CBF churches continue…
Crumpler, accepting Courage Award, notes CBF churches still funding SBC
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — With the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship unable to appoint fully funded missionaries for several years and facing the possibility of calling field personnel home unless gifts to its annual Offering for Global Missions increase, CBF churches continue…
Missouri Baptist Convention moving Windermere case to federal court
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — The ongoing Baptist struggle over 1,300 acres around a Missouri Baptist conference center on the Lake of the Ozarks has moved to federal court. On June 23, the Missouri Baptist Convention filed a motion to…
W. Va. Baptists mourn Byrd’s passing; Va. Baptist church to host funeral
WASHINGTON (ABP) — West Virginia Baptists are mourning the passing of one of their most famous members — longtime Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) — and a Virginia Baptist congregation will host his memorial service July 6. Byrd in an undated…
Kentucky seminary relocating
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, an 8-year-old theological partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is moving to the campus of Georgetown College, a historic Baptist school that loosened ties with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2005. The…
Baptist Seminary of Ky. relocating, reaches accreditation milestone
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, an 8-year-old theological partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is moving to the campus of Georgetown College, a historic Baptist school that loosened ties with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2005….
Prof says oil spill could be wakeup call for evangelicals
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The head of a committee that drafted a recent Southern Baptist Convention resolution on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said on National Public Radio that the ecologic al disaster could be a "defining moment" for…
Seminary prof says Gulf oil spill could be wakeup call for evangelicals
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The head of a committee that drafted a recent Southern Baptist Convention resolution on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said on National Public Radio that the ecological disaster could be a "defining moment" for evangelicals…
Justices say Christian club not exempt from non-discrimination policy
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A closely divided Supreme Court, in a June 28 ruling that resolved few major constitutional questions, said the University of California’s law school could refuse to offer the benefits of official registration to a Christian student group…
Wiley Drake says he led Sen. Robert Byrd in ‘sinner’s prayer’
BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist Convention officer said he led Sen. Robert Byrd in the "sinner's prayer" to accept Christ during a hallway conversation during a chance meeting about four years ago in Washington. "I'm firmly…