JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Once touted by Southern Baptist leaders as the nation's next great African-American preacher, Darrell Gilyard was arrested Jan. 14 for sending lewd text messages to underage girls. Dogged for 20 years by dozens of allegations of…
Baptist students sought to study U.N. Millennium Development Goals
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has announced plans to take 12 students around the world to see how missionaries are working to reach the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Sponsored by the Baptist group's Student.Go missions program, the…
Huckabee’s role in SBC conflict presaged political balancing act
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Mike Huckabee's role in the holy war that divided the Southern Baptist Convention was as delicate a balancing act as the one he's attempting now in his presidential campaign, balancing grassroots populism and right-wing conservatism….
Correction
Replace the first paragraph in the Jan. 11 ABP story titled “Zambian boy's ordeal shows slavery lingers, even in America” with the following: COLLEYVILLE, Texas (ABP) – Given Kachepa's father died when he was 7. He lost his mother when…
Sanctuary of Truett, Criswell may be replaced, pastor says
DALLAS (ABP) — The storied pulpit that launched the careers of legendary Baptist pastors George W. Truett and W.A. Criswell may be moving into a new building. The current pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Robert Jeffress, has proposed…
Gilyard, once darling of SBC elites, again forced to resign over sex
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Once touted by Southern Baptist leaders as the nation's next great African-American preacher, Darrell Gilyard has resigned from his fifth church over charges of sexual misconduct — this time with underage girls. Dogged for 20 years…
Zambian boy’s ordeal shows slavery lingers, even in America
COLLEYVILLE, Texas (ABP) – Given Kachepa's father died when he was 7. He lost his mother when he was 9. He ended up living with 15 relatives in a two-room hut in Zambia without electricity or running water. So when…
FAITH DIGEST
BWA's Coffey honored by Queen. The president of the Baptist World Alliance became an officer of the Order of the British Empire Jan. 2. David Coffey, a Briton who has served as the BWA's president since 2005, recevied the honor…
Seminary student charged with abuse
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Police have charged a Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary student with sexually abusing a 10-year-old child at an after-hours YMCA program, re-emphasizing the growing problem of sex abuse among Southern Baptist clergy. It's not the first time…
Time to revamp discipleship methods?
More than two decades after he helped many Baptist churches breathe new life into discipleship training, Roy Edgemon believes it's time take a new look at how churches make disciples. In the early 1980s, the Southern Baptist Convention's Sunday School…
VBMB announces members of Virginia Baptist all-state choirs
RICHMOND — Children and youth in grades 4-12 who have been accepted into the 2008 Virginia Baptist All-State Choirs have been announced. The singers were nominated and auditioned to participate, according to Tom Ingram, worship and spiritual development consultant at…
SECOND OPINION: God’s New Year Resolutions for the church
To My Church, Do you remember when my son said, “Whoever puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for service in the Kingdom?” I hope you don't think he meant to never think about the…