Molly Marshall was elected president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas, Nov. 12, becoming the first female president of an accredited Baptist seminary. Marshall, 54, succeeds Thomas Clifton, who retired at the end of 2003 after 10…
N.C. Baptists will continue to fund moderate causes-for now
Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted Nov. 16 to keep the convention's four giving plans. But a move to eliminate the plan favored by moderates still looms as a possibility. Ted Stone,…
Tennessee Baptists vote to investigate colleges
Tennessee Baptists turned back an attack on “anti-Christian” teaching in public schools but agreed to investigate the biblical views taught in their three affiliated Baptist colleges. Messengers to the Tennessee Baptist Convention Nov. 9-10 in Sevierville asked the education committee…
Texas Baptists elect first Hispanic president
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas gave initial approval to the convention's most significant reorganization in almost five decades and elected its first non-Anglo president. The reorganization will reduce the size of the convention's executive board from 234…
Billy Graham crusade returns to L.A., where storied career began in a tent
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) — Billy Graham's four-day Los Angeles crusade ended Nov. 21 with more than 80,000 people converging on the Rose Bowl on a chilly Sunday afternoon. They were among the 312,000 people who attended the four-day revival, 55…
Nashville church to be led by female co-pastoral team
NASHVILLE (ABP) — A Tennessee church that raised controversy after calling an openly gay woman to be an associate pastor has now elevated her to co-pastor — and called another woman from Georgia to complete the pastoral team. Nashville's Glendale…
Quiet South Carolina convention adopts stable budget, South Asia partnership
COLUMBIA, S.C. (ABP) — In quiet but efficient fashion, messengers to the 184th annual session of the South Carolina Baptist Convention elected a veteran pastor from Greer as president, adopted a 2005 budget that does not increase from this year,…
California church-restoration bill now headed to Bush’s desk
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress has sent President Bush a bill that would fund restoration of 21 historic church buildings in California. Bush received the “California Missions Preservation Act” (H.R. 1446) Nov. 20 after the House passed it in final form…
North Carolina Baptists to keep plans that fund moderate causes (updated)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Nov. 15-17 voted to keep the convention's four giving plans intact, including the plan favored by moderates. Ted Stone, a freelance minister from…