By Bob Allen A chaperone for a church youth group has been arrested on 24 counts of sex offenses against minors at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly in Fort Caswell. Clyde Wesley Way, 68, of Albemarle, N.C., is charged with…
Immigrants boost churches, Paynter says
By Bob Allen Faith communities in the United States both serve and benefit from immigrants, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter said July 10 in a conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. “Immigrants have brought…
CBF head joins immigration panel
By Bob Allen As House Republicans gather Wednesday in private to discuss their next steps on the comprehensive Senate immigration bill, the top leader of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at an immigration…
SBC leader on sidelines in GOP race
By Bob Allen Southern Baptists’ new spokesman for moral and religious-liberty concerns offered a corrective for Christian involvement in politics in a wide-ranging, 45-minute interview July 8 on C-SPAN. “I think there was a day when evangelical Christians in America…
BWA calls for ending Cuba embargo
By Bob Allen Baptist leaders from around the world called on the United States to lift its half-century-old economic embargo on Cuba in a resolution adopted during the Baptist World Alliance annual gathering July 1-6 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The…
Mahaney withdraws from T4G conference
By Bob Allen An evangelical preacher plagued by scandal over an alleged cover up of child sex abuse has withdrawn from a biennial Bible conference next year that he previously led in partnership with high-profile Calvinist leaders in the Southern…
Catholics, Baptists join in HHS protest
By Bob Allen The Obama administration unwittingly created an unlikely coalition opposed to a rule requiring employers to provide free insurance coverage of contraceptives for women, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top spokesman for moral concerns said at a July 2…
Carter says faith used against women
By Bob Allen The abuse of women is “the most pervasive and unaddressed human-rights violation on Earth,” and too often justified in the name of religion, former President Jimmy Carter said at a June 27-29 conference at the Carter Center…
Paynter unveils vision for ‘CBF 2.0’
This story was edited after posting to correct an error in the 13th paragraph. By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s new executive coordinator said supporting churches face a choice: “We can be alone, or we can be an even…