By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s mission board voted unanimously and without discussion Nov. 12 to approve an administrative committee recommendation to postpone a vote on the convention’s future with Georgetown College by one year. A motion to terminate…
Ky. Baptists delay cutting Georgetown ties
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s mission board voted unanimously and without discussion Nov. 12 to approve an administrative committee recommendation to postpone by one year a vote on the convention’s future with Georgetown College. A motion to terminate…
McAfee to offer Ph.D.
By Bob Allen Mercer University trustees approved McAfee School of Theology’s first doctor of philosophy degree program during their semi-annual board meeting Nov. 8 in Macon, Ga. The Ph.D. in religion with a focus on Baptist studies will be interdepartmental,…
McAfee to offer Ph.D.
By Bob Allen Mercer University trustees approved McAfee School of Theology’s first doctor of philosophy degree program during their semi-annual board meeting Nov. 8. The Ph.D. in religion with a focus on Baptist studies will be interdepartmental, engaging faculty from…
BGAV upholds committee action to dismiss church over ordination of openly-gay man
ROANOKE — The Baptist General Association of Virginia has upheld a committee’s decision to end the state association’s affiliation with a church which ordained an openly gay man to the ministry earlier this fall. In the opening session of its…
Sandy overshadows Isaac response
By Jeff Brumley Knoxvillian Kendall McCosh spent the better part of last week providing disaster relief — not in the Sandy-plagued Northeast but in Louisiana, rehabbing homes ravaged by winds and flooding from Hurricane Isaac on Aug. 29. McCosh, a former…
Woven prayers of congregation’s shawl ministry making spiritual impact in church and beyond
MADISON, N.C. — One stitch at a time, the prayer shawl ministry at First Baptist Church of Madison, N.C., has created a network of love and blessing that has touched more than 1,250 people since its modest beginnings six years…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Lessons from a century of preaching
A century of preaching can teach preachers a lot. The two of us have been best friends since college days. When our experience is taken together, we have preached for more than a hundred years now. We became pastors as…
OUT LOUD
“If any religious leaders say tomorrow that the hurricane is God’s punishment against some group, they’re idiots. God’s ways are not our ways.” James Martin The writer for America magazine was tweeting about Hurricane Sandy. (RNS) “Protecting the freedom of…
LEADERSHIP LINK: When callings and choir robes collide
(ABP) — The other day I was remembering my first involvement in a church as an independent adult. My first grown-up church was a big, suburban congregation with a fancy building and lots of fun programming for college students. I…
LEADERSHIP LINK: 10 things deacons would like to say to their pastors
Rightly understood, the relationship between pastors and deacons is one of partnership in the mission of being (and building) the church. The following are statements I have heard deacons make through the years. 1. I need to be clear about…
Baptist scholar aims for ‘loving dialogue and respectful listening’ in Catholic conversations
(ABP) — A U.S. scholar representing the Baptist World Alliance at a recent Vatican gathering of Catholic bishops described his presence as “a moment of historic significance.” “Baptists and Catholics differ on important ecclesial and theological issues but we are…