FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A Kentucky Baptist university has, at the last minute, withdrawn its invitation to host a youth mission team from Texas after the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped their church for its toleration of homosexuals. Brent Beasley,…
OUT LOUD
“The relationships that are being built mean everything. … When an evangelical Christian gets to know a Muslim, the whole defense of Islam has stepped up to a higher level because … you’re no longer talking about a religion. You’re…
Riverside pastor resigns after short tenure
NEW YORK (ABP) — A Baptist minister and former Wake Forest Divinity School professor has resigned just nine months after becoming senior pastor of New York’s Riverside Church, a historic congregation identified with the 20th-century Social Gospel movement that downplayed…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Quotes evoke comments
I comment on statements on four pages in the issue of July 2. Page 5: “What if another religion becomes the majority?” I assert that other religions have already become the majority: the worships of money, power, pleasure, status, possessions….
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….
Two Northern Virginia churches helping each other
MCLEAN — It was in early 2007 that God opened a door that will forever connect the congregations of McLean Baptist Church and First Baptist Church, Herndon. The leaders at McLean were in the early stages of seeking God’s guidance…
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….