Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Bobby Broughton, to Immanuel Baptist Church, San Angelo, Texas, as minister of worship arts and senior adults….
Kentucky Baptist Convention formally excludes churches dually aligned with CBF
The Kentucky Baptist Convention no longer welcomes churches that dually align with the moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Just over 400 messengers at the state affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Pikeville, Kentucky, voted Tuesday to approve a…
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond to close in 2019
The Virginia seminary, one of 15 theological institutions that receives funding from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, announced Nov. 13 it will close June 30, 2019, “due to financial pressures.”
Ministry jobs and more
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
Faith groups amass compassion for migrant caravan as Trump amasses troops
Members of the migrant caravan winding its way through Mexico voted Thursday night to continue toward the U.S. border, and President Trump has promised to meet them there with troops and stricter asylum rules. But faith is also going to…
Al Mohler Chapel? Former colleague suggests renaming Southern Seminary landmark
A Southern Baptist Convention agency head and former colleague suggests renaming the chapel at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary after its current president, Albert Mohler. “Southern Seminary has a list of presidents who are renowned – James P. Boyce, E.Y. Mullins,…
Nadia Bolz-Weber: No shame in consuming ‘ethically sourced’ porn
Former Lutheran pastor turned public theologian Nadia Bolz-Weber says in an upcoming book there is no shame in consuming pornography if it is “ethically sourced,” according to an October interview the New Jersey LGBTQ magazine Out in Jersey. Bolz-Weber, the…
Religion Notes: Donations, volunteers sought for Florence and Michael victims
Alliance offers Enneagram webinar
CBTS profs team up to write self-care book
Kentucky Baptist leader nominated to head SBC International Mission Board
Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention since 2011, has been nominated as 13th president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board.
Supreme Court takes up its cross to test the wall separating church and state
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing in on the constitutional question of whether the symbol of Christ’s crucifixion is necessarily religious.
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A church-based store where shopping is ministry
Shoppers like knowing they are contributing to a trade that doesn’t involve toxic materials, child-labor or sweatshops.