JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. (ABP) — James Netherton, the embattled president of Carson-Newman College, is resigning from the Baptist-affiliated school to become executive vice president of Mercer University. Netherton, president of Carson-Newman since 2000, has been under pressure in recent months….
Debate over SBC cooperation, direction marks Baptist Identity conference
JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — The future should be bright for Southern Baptists, but it won't be if they continue their infighting, said Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page Feb. 15 at a conference on Baptist identity. Page, pastor of First…
Baptists Today to honor Baptist historian Wayne Flynt for commitment to justice
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Alabama Baptist historian Wayne Flynt will receive Baptists Today's annual Judson-Rice Award for leadership with integrity April 20. Flynt, professor emeritus at Auburn University, will receive the national news journal's award during a banquet at a…
N.C. pastor returns to Vietnam to evangelize his homeland
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — One North Carolina Baptist pastor isn't content simply to reach out to his fellow Vietnamese living in the United States. “God has opened the doors in Vietnam, allowing the gospel to be shared, and there have…
Did the IMB ‘investigate’ charges? Wade Burleson, IMB say no
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Wade Burleson says there was no “investigation” by the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board into his allegations of trustee improprieties — despite the insistence of some trustees that there was. “What idiot told Mr. Burleson…
Kansas education board again revokes norms that questioned evolution
TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — Kansas' state Board of Education has yet again reversed itself on standards for science teaching, removing the questioning of evolution from recommended state curricula. By a 6-4 vote Feb. 14, the panel served another volley in…
N.C. pastor returns to Vietnam to evangelize his homeland
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — One North Carolina Baptist pastor isn't content simply to reach out to his fellow Vietnamese living in the United States. “God has opened the doors in Vietnam, allowing the gospel to be shared, and there have…
Bruce Metzger, Greek scholar responsible for NRSV, dies
PRINCETON, N.J. (ABP) — Bruce Metzger, who was perhaps the 20th century's preeminent New Testament Greek scholar, has died at age 93. The retired seminary professor reportedly died of natural causes in Princeton, N.J., Feb. 13. Metzger helped translate both…
Texas becomes unlikely test case for vaccine fighting cancer, STD
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Texas and its conservative governor, Rick Perry, have become the nation's first — and perhaps most unlikely — test case for requiring school-aged girls to receive a vaccine that can prevent both cervical cancer and a common…
Shoes offer relief, hope to children in terror-torn Russia, Chechnya
BESLAN, Russia (ABP) — Thousands of children in war-torn regions of Beslan, Russia, and Grozny, Chechnya, recently received shoes donated through a Baptist charity shoe drive. Russian Ministries, a Christian group that collaborates with Buckner International, distributed the shoes as…
Lutheran court upholds, decries penalties against gay minister
ATLANTA (ABP) — An ecclesiastical panel of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has issued a decision upholding — but decrying — punitive action against an openly gay Atlanta minister. In the Feb. 7 decision, the disciplinary hearing panel said…
Broad-based history conference in Charleston historic in itself
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — The “mother church” of Southern Baptists — from whose pulpit legendary pastor Richard Furman once defended the institution of slavery — will host Baptists of multiple races, denominations and regional identities for a historic conference in…