HOUSTON (ABP) — Nearly 20 years after its founding as a small breakaway group birthed by controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship exists today as a work of God’s grace, the group’s top executive said. CBF…
HERITAGE: The rabbit trap
In 1915 Frederic W. Boatwright was the busy president of the University of Richmond (although at the time the school was still known as Richmond College). He had just lived through the first academic year of the school’s relocation from…
Leonard: Baptists must express ideals in new ways
HOUSTON — Baptist denominational systems across the United States are in transition and being redefined, spawning a number of issues that are complicating and clouding the Baptist landscape, historian Bill Leonard told a group of Associated Baptist Press supporters July…
Virginia musician chosen to lead hymn society
RICHMOND (ABP) — A Baptist woman has been tapped to head an organization of church leaders and artists dedicated to preserving the congregational singing of hymns. Deborah Carlton Loftis, visiting professor of church music at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond,…
Jimmy Carter says religion used to subjugate women
ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has urged religious leaders to repudiate teachings that he says justify cruelty to women. Carter, a Nobel laureate, described in an article in the British newspaper The Observer his "painful and difficult" decision…
Jimmy Carter says religion used to subjugate women
ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has urged religious leaders to repudiate teachings that he says justify cruelty to women. Carter, a Nobel laureate, described in an article in the British newspaper The Observer his “painful and difficult” decision…
Struggle continues for teenager injured in church-bus accident
SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — A teenager from Shreveport, La., continued to fight for her life in a Mississippi hospital four days after a July 12 bus crash that killed one and injured 22 passengers on their way to a church…
Adrian Rogers’ son resigning as IMB missionary
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — David Rogers, son of the legendary preacher and Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, is resigning after 19 years as an SBC missionary to Spain. Rogers, a blogger who has written extensively about his disagreement with…
Baptist camp director on leave after arrest
Steve Carter and wife, as pictured on camp website. HERTFORD, N.C. (ABP) — A Baptist association in North Carolina is standing by a camp director indicted July 13 on two counts of engaging in sexual activities with a child….
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
Tournament to benefit seniors. Virginia Baptist Homes Foundation will sponsor the Culpeper Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 21, at Country Club of Culpeper. Proceeds from the tournament benefit the Endowed Fund for Seniorships of Culpeper Baptist Retirement Community, a unit…
Retired campus minister’s mission changed with the times
NORFOLK — There’s a catch in Robert Sandford’s voice as he talks about retiring. After all, Sandford has set a national record serving 41 years as a Baptist campus minister — 39 of them at Old Dominion University in Norfolk….
EDITORIAL: Information can be a dangerous commodity
What’s more threatening to an authoritarian regime than a terrorist? Apparently, a journalist. Make that a journalist for a religious publication, and the perceived threat is that much greater. Lynn Yarbrough, whose work in China as a Kingdom Advance Ambassador…