By Bob Allen A Baptist historian and divinity school dean is invited as a fraternal delegate to join about 200 Catholic bishops from around the world at the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops Oct. 7-28 in…
Arkansas CBF mourns student’s murder
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas joined the campus community of a historically African-American college in Little Rock in mourning the senseless murder of a student Sept. 27. Derek Olivier, 19, a freshman from New Iberia, La.,…
Youth recuperating from church van crash
By Bob Allen One girl remained hospitalized two weeks after a church van crash killed two, injured 10 others and left a Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship congregation reeling. “Things are going pretty well,” Bob Lynch, pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist…
EBF leaders endorse seminary move
By Bob Allen Leaders of the European Baptist Federation voted overwhelmingly Sept. 28 to move the International Baptist Theological Seminary from Prague to Amsterdam as an international Baptist studies and research center with close ties to the Union of Baptist…
Groups support people with disabilities
By Bob Allen As values voters both left and right weigh in on special interests from immigration reform to same-sex marriage in an election season, a lesser-known religious coalition is speaking up for Americans with disabilities. The Interfaith Disability Advocacy…
Prof terms stay-at-home dads ‘man fails’
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist college professor says those families in which the dad stays at home and the wife is the family’s primary breadwinner don’t comport with God’s plan for the family revealed in the Bible. Owen Strachan,…
MMBB head announces retirement
By Bob Allen Sumner Grant, executive director of The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board since 1998, has announced plans to retire after his successor is named. Grant first joined the staff of the MMBB, a nonprofit Christian organization that provides…
MMBB head announces retirement
By Bob Allen Sumner Grant, executive director of The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board since 1998, has announced plans to retire after his successor is named. Grant first joined the staff of the MMBB, a non-profit Christian organization that provides…
Hobby Lobby gives OK Baptists $2 million
By Bob Allen Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby has donated $2 million to the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma for purchase of an Assemblies of God youth camp near Davis, Okla. The gift, in addition to more than $3 million given…