Three Virginia Baptist leaders were among the more than 80 leaders from 40 Baptist organizations in the United States and Canada who met Jan. 9 in Atlanta. John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia; Jerry Jones,…
Baptists again endangered as violence engulfs Beirut
BEIRUT (ABP) — An urgent communiqué from a Lebanese Baptist leader warned Jan. 25 that escalating violence is threatening the Beirut Baptist School. Nabil Costa, executive director of the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development, sent an e-mail message…
SBC officials reject Carter, but not all Southern Baptists agree
Southern Baptist officials harshly rejected Jimmy Carter's effort to unite all Baptists in North America under a compassion agenda, calling the ambitious plan “voodoo ecumenism” and a thinly veiled Democratic strategy to woo values voters. But other Southern Baptists, including…
Woman’s missions group suffers from more Baptist funding cuts
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — The Woman's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has seen its annual revenues drop precipitously in the last eight years, now stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars more from one of the…
Belmont subpoenas church records in Tennessee lawsuit
Belmont University has subpoenaed giving records from 100 Tennessee Baptist Convention churches in an ongoing legal dispute with the convention over control of the school's assets. The subpoena asks for records on churches' giving to the Cooperative Program between 1951,…
Controversy dooms another SBC megachurch pastor
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (ABP) — After fewer than five months as senior pastor, David Cox abruptly resigned Jan. 24 from the pulpit of First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, Fla., which for more than three decades has been filled by…
Fires investigated at N.C. churches
“Suspicious” fires damaged two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third in Greenville, N.C., the night of Jan. 13. Memorial Baptist Church and Unity Free Will Baptist, located near each other in the city about 50 miles…
Day will celebrate preaching of women
Baptist Women in Ministry is inviting all churches to participate in the first of what it hopes will be an annual Martha Stearns Marshall Day of Preaching. “On the first Sunday of February each year, we will join together to…
One of a kind
According to Chris McPeek, youth minister at Columbia Baptist in Falls Church and student at the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, his school is unique. “What I find really different is the international flavor of the students and faculty….
N.C. editor announces plans to leave
Tony Cartledge, editor of the Biblical Recorder, the state Baptist paper of North Carolina, has announced that he will leave his post to assume a teaching position with Campbell University Divinity School. Teaching has always been a source of great…
Love offering for 21-C will fund registration
The missions and outreach potential of this year's “P.E.A.C.E. in 21-C” conference with Rick and Kay Warren has inspired Highlands Fellowship Church in Abingdon to offer to pay the registration fees for two key leaders from any Baptist General Association…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida preaches to preachers
Dear Jimmy, As you know, it's been a while since you got a letter from your dear old auntie, so I thought I'd bring you up to date. I can't do much else anyway because our lights are out. I…