“This is an effort to reach out and be connected in the community – that’s what church is all about.”
Arkansas Supreme Court declines to prevent pastor/judge from hearing attorney general’s cases
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday refused to bar a Little Rock judge from handling cases involving the office of the state attorney general who in 2017 got him removed from execution cases after he demonstrated against the death penalty in his extrajudicial role as a Baptist pastor.
New Liberty University think tank aims to revive ‘Christian American culture’
Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian school in Virginia started in the 1970s by Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, has launched a new think tank described in an introductory video as a “support network for the revival of Christian American culture across the nation.”
Transitions for the week of 12-6-19
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Preston Cave, to Texas Baptist Men, as missions and discipleship coordinator for students. He comes from Lakeside…
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Walker Knight, founding editor of Baptists Today newspaper and former editor of Home Missions magazine, dead at 95
Walker L. Knight, a trailblazer in establishing a free and independent Baptist press, died Dec. 1 at age 95.
Less TV, more faith needed to help refugees along U.S.-Mexican border
“Believers in Christ in the U.S. are attached to the TV, which gets your emotions pumped.”
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Judge rules that historically black college and sponsoring denomination share power to name trustees
A two-year legal battle between American Baptist College and the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., ended Nov. 15 when a judge in Tennessee established a two-step process giving both entities input into selection of the college’s board of trustees.
Franklin Graham terms opposition to Trump ‘almost’ demonic
Evangelist Franklin Graham attributed opposition to President Donald Trump to “almost a demonic power” that seeks to undermine his leadership in a Nov. 21 radio interview with author Eric Metaxas.
Trump’s West Bank shocker: are End Times ‘kooks’ running US foreign policy?
“As Christians, we are called to be peace makers and to work for justice for those who are living under harsh conditions.”
Parting with national body, Tennessee Baptists repudiate Critical Race Theory
The Tennessee Baptist Convention on Wednesday passed a resolution strongly denouncing Critical Race Theory and intersectionality as “inconsistent with a biblical worldview and theology.” The statement puts Tennessee Baptists on record against a resolution passed by the Southern Baptist Convention in June endorsing theories from social sciences as “analytical tools subordinate to Scripture” to better understand social dynamics and human experience.