In the Jan. 12 story titled “Biblical Recorder editor to take university post” please replace the fifth graph with the following: The 172-year-old newspaper announced last February it would nominate four people to open seats on its 16-member board, bypassing…
Authorities investigating fires at North Carolina churches
GREENVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — “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…
Correction
Please replace the first paragraph in the Jan 11 ABP story, “Analysis: Do Baptist leaders regret justifying Iraq war?” with the following: As the number of American soldiers killed passes 3,000 and Congress debates President Bush's latest strategy for winning…
SBC officials reject Carter, unity talk, but not all Southern Baptists join chorus
ATLANTA (ABP) — 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…
House passes stem-cell bill again, sets up new showdown
WASHINGTON (ABP) — By another large — but not veto-proof — margin, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would loosen restrictions on government funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Meanwhile, the contentious debate over stem-cells took another turn…
Biblical Recorder editor to take university post
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Tony Cartledge, editor of North Carolina's Biblical Recorder, has announced plans to become an associate professor of Old Testament at Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, NC. The Recorder is the newspaper of the Baptist…
Tsunami effects still felt in India
Two years after a powerful tsunami devastated a dozen countries in south Asia, Virginia Baptists continue to minister to its victims in India. On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake beneath the seafloor off the west coast of the Indonesian…
Belmont names non-Baptists as controversy continues
Belmont University, embroiled in a lawsuit with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, has further angered some convention leaders by appointing non-Baptists to its board of trustees. The Nashville school announced, via a Dec. 21 press release, that eight new trustees had…
Women’s Missionary Union of Texas names Pinkston interim director
DALLAS (ABP) — Nina Pinkston has been named interim executive director-treasurer of the Woman's Missionary Union of Texas. She replaces Carolyn Porterfield, who resigned last October. Texas WMU president Nelda Taylor said Pinkston was selected because of her strong administrative…
Tsunami effects still felt in India
Two years after a powerful tsunami devastated a dozen countries in south Asia, Virginia Baptists continue to minister to its victims in India. On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake beneath the seafloor off the west coast of the Indonesian…
Robertson predicts ‘mass killing’ by terrorists in U.S. this year
Pat Robertson said Jan. 2 the United States will face a massive terrorist attack in late 2007. The 76-year-old religious broadcaster made his prediction during a broadcast of The 700 Club, his news-and-commentary show. Robertson said that, during a recent…
Panel reports ‘no breach’; WMUV executive to retire
An ad hoc study committee named in June by Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia to examine concerns raised by some Virginia Baptists about WMUV's personnel policies and organizational structure reported last week that “there have been no breaches of policy…