A Baptist music minister is emerging from a life-threatening encounter with COVID-19 preaching the gospel of social isolation. “Do everything you can to stay home,” Tommy Shapard, minister of music and worship at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida,…
Central Seminary announces Marshall’s sudden resignation
Molly T. Marshall has stepped down from the presidency of Central Baptist Theological Seminary months ahead of her previously announced summer retirement.
High-profile HSU critic energizes Save Logsdon Seminary campaign
Leaders of a movement to prevent Hardin-Simmons University from closing its Baptist seminary are emboldened by a major donor who publicly chastised HSU’s leadership for what he described as financial and spiritual failings. In a letter to trustees, Jeff Sandefer…
BWA postpones World Congress due to COVID-19 concerns | #intimeslikethese
“We must not give into fear.”
‘Godsend’ work order saves refugees’ jobs (for now) from novel coronavirus | #intimeslikethese
“My full-time employee was beginning his furlough this week and he was saying ‘what am I going to do for rent?’ I had no idea what we were going to do.”
Why live streaming, electronic giving may not save some churches | #intimeslikethese
“My fear is that while we’re worried about broadcasting services, the real issue is the number of churches who cannot survive an eight-week or three-month hiatus from gathering together.”
Couple shares of dicey exit from Peru as COVID-19 shuts borders | #intimeslikethese
A medical mission turned “Mission Impossible” when a Baptist couple from Houston tried to leave Peru as it closed its borders to combat COVID-19. “It was absolute, utter chaos,” Ruth Campos, 74, said of the scenes around Lima and its…
Empty pews just the beginning of coronavirus impact on churches, those they serve | #intimeslikethese
Behind every canceled church gathering in the age of the novel coronavirus is likely to be a faithful-though-frazzled pastor. Their stress emanates from having to decide between the physical and spiritual health of the congregation they serve.
Coronavirus ripples turn to waves for faith-based groups
“Event participants who show any cold or flu symptoms will be asked to go home, and the area they were occupying should immediately be disinfected.”
Are Baptists coming around on the Holy Spirit? (Do they need to?)
“I was surprised how often (Baptist newspapers) cited holiness folks.”
Tennessee twisters move Baptists into short- and long-term disaster response
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is standing by to help after storm-induced tornadoes killed at least 24 people and damaged close to 150 buildings, including several churches, in Middle Tennessee early Tuesday morning. CBF’s expertise is in long-term recovery that typically…
For missionaries, coronavirus creates ‘an interesting moment in plagues and pestilence’
Missions agencies are scrambling to respond to worldwide concerns about the coronavirus. Organizations such as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, American Baptist Churches USA and the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board, among others, have kicked into high gear forming contingency…