ST. LOUIS (ABP) — A five-sentence statement buried toward the bottom of a March 11 speech by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) has kicked up a furor on the state's private college campuses and left some students — including at…
Top 100 Virginia Baptist churches in gifts to Cooperative Missions listed
RICHMOND, Va. — First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in both in total Cooperative Missions giving and in contributions to the Virginia portion of Cooperative Missions gifts, according…
Q and A: Melissa Rogers on Obama faith-based council report
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Melissa Rogers, former general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and current professor at Baptist-related Wake Forest Divinity School, recently finished serving as the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood…
Analysis: Obama council report partial victory for church-state separation
President Obama greets and thanks members of the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during a drop-by in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 9. (White House Photo by Pete Souza) WASHINGTON (ABP) — After a…
Baptist school coach, principal charged with sexual assault
SHERWOOD, Ark. (ABP) — A coach and principal at a Baptist-sponsored Christian school in Arkansas pleaded not guilty March 23 to a charge of sexually assaulting a former student. Tim Ballard Tim Ballard, 39, who is free from jail on…
Longtime BSU worker, CBF leader Tom Logue dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Tom Logue, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, died March 6 after an illness. Logue,…
Longtime Arkansas BSU worker, CBF leader Tom Logue dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Tom Logue, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, died March 6 after an illness. Tom…
Gaddy urges textbook publishers to ignore new Texas standards
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Baptist preacher who leads a national progressive interfaith organization has written leading publishers around the country to urge them to reject changes made to standards for teaching about social studies, history and economics in Texas. Welton…
Pastors to preach barefoot to raise awareness of the global need for shoes
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Pastors to preach barefoot in honor of MLK
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Pastors to go barefoot on Easter to raise awareness about shoelessness
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Church health center installs former Virginia Baptist leader as president
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A parade of friends and colleagues from past ministries helped to install Bill Wilson March 18 as second president of the Center for Congregational Health during a service at United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C….