By Bob Allen A real-life ghost buster has labeled folklore that a Baptist university sits above haunted catacombs formerly attached to an insane asylum an urban legend. Numerous paranormal websites list California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., as one of…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen In an open letter Aug. 7, a Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty. Welton Gaddy, president of the…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen A Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty in an open letter Aug. 7. Welton Gaddy, president of the…
BTSR receives $1 million gift from Baugh Foundation
By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received a gift of $1 million to be distributed over five years from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, the seminary announced in an Aug. 7…
BTSR receives $1 million gift from Baugh Foundation
By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received a gift of $1 million to be distributed over five years from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, the seminary announced in an Aug. 7…
BTSR receives $1 million gift
By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received a gift of $1 million to be distributed over five years from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, the seminary announced in an Aug. 7…
Lott Carey convention set to meet
By Bob Allen The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention will launch a new pastors’ network to encourage ministerial self-care and share leading-edge ministry models at the group’s 115th annual session Aug. 13-17 in New Orleans. The self-funded network is intended…
Baptist-Pentecostal talks postponed
By Bob Allen Formal dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals scheduled this week has been postponed due to unexpected personnel changes at the venue and the unavailability of some participants, leaders of both groups announced Aug. 8. Last December a preparatory…
Baptist-Pentecostal talks postponed
By Bob Allen Formal dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals scheduled this week has been postponed due to unexpected personnel changes at the venue and the unavailability of some participants, leaders of both groups announced Aug. 8. Last December a preparatory…
Baptist candidate loses race
By Bob Allen A Missouri Baptist minister’s wife and seminary graduate finished second in a crowded field of six Democrats running for lieutenant governor in statewide primary elections Aug. 7. Judy Baker, a former state legislator who resigned as a…
Baptist candidate loses race
By Bob Allen A Missouri Baptist minister’s wife and seminary graduate finished second in a crowded field of six Democrats running for lieutenant governor in statewide primary elections Aug. 7. Judy Baker, a former state legislator who resigned as a…
Pastors call for Thomas Nelson boycott
By Bob Allen A group of Cincinnati pastors and church leaders is boycotting Thomas Nelson Publishers over David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies, saying it glosses over the third president’s racism and justifies his ownership of slaves. Black and white…