By Robert Dilday Boards of directors for Baptist News Global (formerly ABPnews/Herald) and the Baptist Standard have approved a process for considering whether the two organizations should merge their operations. Leaders of both groups stressed the goal of their talks…
Faith leaders support economic opportunity for Americans with disabilities
By Bob Allen While restrooms, buildings and parking lots are more accessible for people with disabilities than a generation ago, their employment opportunities are just as limited as they were when President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities…
ABPnews/Herald becomes Baptist News Global
By BNG staff ABPnews/Herald, created a year ago in a merger of two Baptist news organizations, has become Baptist News Global. The rebrand is the result of an agreement approved a year ago when the respective boards of Associated Baptist…
Pastor urges compassion for Ebola victim’s family
By Bob Allen Whatever the public thinks about the West African man who brought Ebola to the United States, a Baptist pastor who has been ministering to his family says people should remember that he caught the disease that killed…
For West pastor and family, new home means recovery
By Jeff Brumley It’s much quieter these days in West, the tiny Texas town partially flattened by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in April 2013. Gone are the convoys of semis and church trailers hauling debris and construction supplies, lawn…
Pro-gay Baptists welcome same-sex marriage in N.C.
By Bob Allen A 97-church group that advocates LGBT inclusion in Baptist churches welcomed last week’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in North Carolina. “I am overjoyed to see another state remove the barriers to our member congregations being able to…
Baptists weigh role (if any) of apologetics in postmodern culture
By Jeff Brumley As many as 2,000 evangelicals are expected to attend a conference on apologetics this weekend in Charlotte, N.C., where the theme will be “defending a never changing faith in an ever changing world.” Topics at the Southern…
Kentucky Baptist Convention poised to dismiss Crescent Hill
By Bob Allen A Kentucky Baptist Convention committee voted Oct. 9 to sever ties with Crescent Hill Baptist Church over the historic Louisville congregation’s welcoming and affirming stance toward gays. According to a news release, the decision by a credentials…
Bluefield College ends dental school project
By Robert Dilday Bluefield College has ended efforts to develop what would have been the only dental school in the nation operated by a school with Baptist ties. Bluefield’s trustees shut down the dental school project, launched in 2012 to…
Maryland high court denies abuse lawsuit appeal
By Bob Allen Maryland’s highest court of appeal declined Sept. 22 to review what has been described as largest evangelical sex-abuse case to date, leaving intact lower-court decisions dismissing the class-action lawsuit on legal technicalities. The Court of Appeals, the…
Self-centered prayers no surprise to American pastors
By Jeff Brumley A new poll has revealed something religious leaders have known for years: Americans are pretty self-centered when they pray. And even when not praying for themselves, they are praying for family, friends and favorite teams — which, pastors…
Ebola vigil becomes memorial for fallen Christian brother
By Marv Knox A prayer vigil for the first Ebola patient in the United States turned into a memorial service for the virus’ first U.S. victim hours after Eric Duncan died in Dallas Oct. 8. Wilshire Baptist Church planned the…