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…
MID-ATLANTIC DIGEST
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Churches maintain Ministry on the Mall. Baptists in the District of Columbia are continuing their Ministry on the Mall this summer, as churches offer hospitality to the tourists that flock to Washington's National Mall. Area churches offer…
EDITORIAL: What can one Christian do?
Once again CNN, the Internet and the Spirit have driven me to my knees. It is not fear so much as frustration that creates in me an agony of soul. In addition to information supplied by the network news reports,…
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…
Gore documentary film exposes diversity in evangelical opinion on environment
DALLAS (ABP) — A recent movie by Al Gore has helped reveal a diversity of opinion among Christians when it comes to the environment. While in recent years some evangelical and conservative groups have begun to acknowledge the case for…
Randel Everett to resign from Leland Center in Va.
ARLINGTON, Va. (ABP) — Randel Everett will resign at the end of the year as president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, where he has served for the past nine years. “These past nine years have been an…