ALEXANDRIA, La. (ABP) — Lynn Clayton, editor of Louisiana's Baptist Message, announced May 18 he plans to retire at the end of 2005. By the time Clayton retires, he will be 65 and will have served more than 27 years…
Baptist chaplain named chief of chaplains for Air Force
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Baptist chaplain Brig. Gen. Charles Baldwin has been promoted to the Chief of Chaplain Service for the U.S. Air Force, and next month will become a major general and one of the three highest-ranking chaplains in the…
Leaving the SBC behind proves hard for some churches
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — Providence Baptist Church never has been a Southern Baptist church and doesn't want to be one. But the congregation has had a hard time convincing the Southern Baptist Convention of that. The eight-year-old church in Charleston,…
Evangelicals, Catholics, mainline groups want to draw attention to poverty in election
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Fighting poverty should be a far more prominent issue for American Christians in the 2004 elections than it has been in the past, according to a diverse group of leaders meeting in Washington. The Christian anti-poverty group…
Exhibit space at Texas convention to exclude SBC seminaries
DALLAS (ABP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will not be allowed to exhibit at the Baptist General Convention of Texas meeting this fall — further fallout from the deteriorating relationship between the Texas convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. A…
Baylor financial VP resigns to return to private business
WACO, Texas (ABP) — David Brooks, vice president for finance and administration at Baylor University, will leave the school at the end of July to return to private business. Brooks, 45, has been the principal architect of the financial model…
Baylor student disciplined for organizing gay-rights march
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A recent Baylor University graduate says he signed, under protest, a statement admitting he violated the school's conduct code by organizing a gay-rights rally — because he feared he wouldn't be allowed to graduate if he had…
North Carolina Baptist leaders adopt statement on public schools
ASHEBORO, N.C. (ABP) – The General Board of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention weighed in on several social issues but declined to address the state's cooperative giving plans during its spring meeting May 18-19 at Caraway. Adopting a statement…
Individual N.C. Baptists less supportive of SBC than their churches, survey suggests
BUIES CREEK, N.C. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention and its conservative statement of faith are not viewed favorably among rank-and-file Baptists in North Carolina, even though most Baptist churches in the state still support the SBC financially. By a…