HOUSTON (ABP) — Robert Sloan, controversial former president of Baylor University, appears poised to assume the presidency of Houston Baptist University, a conservative school that relates to both the fundamentalist and traditional Baptist conventions in Texas. The HBU presidential search…
Rhonda Nash named Baptist campus minister at UMW
Rhonda Nash has been named Baptist campus minister at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. Nash, who has been interim campus minister for the past two years, assumed full-time responsibility on Aug. 1. The Wise, Va., native was associate…
Correction
Please note in the Aug. 2 story “Randel Everett to resign from Leland Center in Va.” that Everett spells his first name with only one L — Randel.
Retired minister’s death investigated
The death of a retired Lutheran minister is under investigation after he died while at a residence hall of a college that was found to have had a buildup of carbon monoxide. Walter J. Vierling, 91, of Pearisburg died July…
Johnson will teach preaching at McAfee School for a year
ATLANTA (ABP) — Former Texas pastor Charles Johnson will serve a one-year appointment as visiting instructor of preaching at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology. Johnson served for the past five years as senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church of…
Randell Everett to resign at Leland
Randell Everett will resign at the end of the year as president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Arlington, where he has served for the past nine years. “These past nine years have been an incredible experience…
CBF sends aid to world’s hotspots: Middle East and Indonesia
ATLANTA (ABP) — As Lebanese citizens are relocated during the continued violence in the Middle East, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has donated $15,000 for relief efforts in the war-torn nation. The Fellowship also recently gave $5,000 in relief funds for…
Study counts 1,600 ordained Baptist women in U.S.
Roughly 1,600 Baptist women in the United States have been ordained to the ministry, according to a new report released June 21 by Baptist Women in Ministry. The study reported that 60 Baptist women became ordained ministers in 2005. According…
Former Arizona foundation executives convicted of fraud, await sentencing
In what has been described as the largest case of fraud targeting a religious group, the former top executive and legal counsel for the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted on multiple fraud-related counts July 24. A Maricopa County, Ariz.,…
Afghan religious, political leaders discuss religious liberty with BJC
Traveling on a U.S. State Department-sponsored program, a member of parliament and three religious leaders from Afghanistan met with Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director J. Brent Walker for a conversation about religious liberty at the BJC's offices July 20. The…
North Carolina couple does ‘God’s work’ from camper, armory in Katrina territory
Hannah Elliott/ABP GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP) — It would take an act of God for most people to quit their jobs, move away from friends and family and commit to living for two years in a camper in Katrina-ravaged Gulfport, Miss….
Stranded Lebanese academic to address American Baptist missions conference
GREEN LAKE, Wis. (ABP) — A Lebanese Baptist minister critical of American evangelical Protestants' overwhelming support for Israel will address an American Baptist Churches missions conference Aug. 4. Martin Accad's address to participants at the ABCUSA International Ministries world missions…