By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
Black pastor says gay marriage wedge issue
By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
Black pastor: gay marriage wedge issue
By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
Pastors foresee raceless church
By Jeff Brumley Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta is considered by some a hopeful sign that Sunday may soon no longer be the most segregated time in America. A dwindling, all-white congregation eight years ago, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…
Billy Graham hospitalized in Asheville with bronchitis
ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Aug. 11 for a suspected case of bronchitis, according to news reports over the weekend. It’s the second time in less than a year the 93-year-old Graham has been taken to Mission Hospital in…
Camp given to HopeTree Family Services will enhance developmental disabled ministry, say officials
SALEM, Va.—A 40-year-old camp providing summer activities for the developmentally disabled has been donated to HopeTree Family Services, which is exploring ways the 90-acre facility can enhance the agency’s own ministries to intellectually-disabled adults. Dare to Care Charities, which has…
CBF interim says attrition rate unexpected
By Bob Allen The interim head of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship says senior staff attrition has been higher than expected since the recent retirement of CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, but it is no cause for alarm. Patrick Anderson, interim…
Baptist ghost story called urban legend
By Bob Allen A real-life ghost buster has labeled folklore that a Baptist university sits above haunted catacombs formerly attached to an insane asylum an urban legend. Numerous paranormal websites list California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., as one of…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen A Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty in an open letter Aug. 7. Welton Gaddy, president of the…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen In an open letter Aug. 7, a Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty. Welton Gaddy, president of the…
BTSR receives $1 million gift from Baugh Foundation
By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received a gift of $1 million to be distributed over five years from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, the seminary announced in an Aug. 7…
BTSR receives $1 million gift from Baugh Foundation
By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received a gift of $1 million to be distributed over five years from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, the seminary announced in an Aug. 7…