ATLANTA (ABP) — Carolyn Anderson, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida since 2003, has announced her plans to retire Jan. 1. Anderson's announcement came at the June 22 CBF of Florida meeting during the Fellowship's annual general assembly…
Correction
There is an error in the 5th paragraph of the June 24 ABP story, “Episcopalians send mixed messages, Presbyterians moderate at meetings.” Please delete the second sentence of that paragraph and replace it with the following: “Only a handful of…
Shurden gives sobering warning on state of religious freedom
ATLANTA (ABP) — Warning “It can happen here,” Baptist historian Walter Shurden told religious-freedom advocates June 23 that the principle of religious freedom is threatened as never before in American history. “But many say, 'It can't happen here,'” Shurden said,…
CBF members examine marks of emergent-church ‘conversation’
ATLANTA (ABP) — Atlanta church planter Jake Myers used the images of beer, candles and theologian Soren Kierkegaard to describe the “emergent conversation” taking place within Christianity, which he said could be a good fit for members of the Cooperative…
Groundbreaking CBF moderator Yee urges intercultural commitment
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must transcend mere multiculturalism to become fully intercultural, CBF moderator Joy Yee told participants at the group's general assembly in Atlanta June 22. The fellowship of traditional, progressive Baptists can be multicultural simply…
Leave ‘Christendom’ thinking behind, Lotz urges BWA supporters at CBF
ATLANTA (ABP) — Western Baptists need to leave Christendom behind and become more like the early church, Denton Lotz told about 150 persons attending a Baptist World Alliance dinner June 23. Lotz, who is general secretary of BWA, said many…
Episcopalians send mixed messages, Presbyterians moderate at meetings
ATLANTA (ABP) — The nation's largest Presbyterian and Episcopal bodies sent mixed messages on sexual-orientation issues in their just-concluded national meetings. Leaders of the Episcopal Church voted June 18 to elevate a gay-friendly female bishop to the denomination's highest American…
Hispanic leaders say Jesus’ ministry prompts focus on immigration reform
ATLANTA (ABP) — The central question in the debate on immigration reform is not about economics or politics, Hispanic Baptist leaders said June 23. “The basic issue is whether Jesus still has a mission to the poor,” Albert Reyes, president…
‘Information integrity’ essential to becoming world citizens, Nash tells ABP audience
ATLANTA (ABP) — Rob Nash, one day after being elected global missions coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, urged about 300 Baptists at an Associated Baptist Press banquet to pursue “information integrity” on their way to becoming “citizens of the…