The Missouri Baptist Foundation lost its final appeal Sept. 20 in legal action filed against it by the Missouri Baptist Convention 14 years ago. As a result, current trustees will be required to surrender governance to MBC-elected trustees.
Another legal win for Missouri Baptists in case against breakaway groups
The Western District Court of Appeals in Kansas City, Mo., on July 5 overruled and denied motions by the Missouri Baptist Foundation for the court to either rehear the Missouri Baptist Convention’s case against it or transfer the matter to…
Planned facility will continue SBU’s ‘Christ-centered’ mission, leaders say
Word & Way Southwest Baptist University has broken ground on a project to expand and renovate the Bolivar campus’ Gene Taylor National Free Enterprise Center, which houses the Robert W. Plaster College of Business and Computer Science and the department…
Sisters mourned husbands with different emotions, same Baptist faith
By Bill Webb It was one tragic event involving two siblings and two different reactions of grief, spirituality and faith. Sisters Heather Gilion and Holly Snell recently shared with Baptists in Missouri how the deaths of their husbands in a…
Churches, like Christ, must de-stigmatize mental illness, embrace those who suffer from it
By Bill Webb Humankind has struggled with the matter of mental disorders — or mental illness — as long as people can remember. And the same can be said for Christians, from the time of Christ to the present moment….
Baptist editors visit Syrian refugee family
By Bill Webb Sitting on cushions in an almost bare apartment in a crowded Palestinian neighborhood in Amman, Jordan, a family of Syrian refugees began to tell their story through an interpreter to a pair of visiting Baptist journalists from…
Mo. woman elected to Churchnet post
By Bill Webb A woman active in Woman’s Missionary Union of Missouri is both the first female and the first layperson to be elected president of Churchnet, ministry network of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri. Donna Potts, a member…
Accident reminds editor of life’s value
By Bill Webb I experienced my first ride in an ambulance on May 12 after suffering the first traumatic injury in my 60-plus years. I had been thrown from a bicycle near the end of a leisurely ride with my…
Fred Shuttlesworth and Steve Jobs
By Bill Webb They both died on Wednesday, Oct. 3. One man was well-known for his creativity and technological innovation. But many people might not have known the other individual, who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy…