By Bob Allen Formal dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals scheduled this week has been postponed due to unexpected personnel changes at the venue and the unavailability of some participants, leaders of both groups announced Aug. 8. Last December a preparatory…
Baptist-Pentecostal talks postponed
By Bob Allen Formal dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals scheduled this week has been postponed due to unexpected personnel changes at the venue and the unavailability of some participants, leaders of both groups announced Aug. 8. Last December a preparatory…
Baptist candidate loses race
By Bob Allen A Missouri Baptist minister’s wife and seminary graduate finished second in a crowded field of six Democrats running for lieutenant governor in statewide primary elections Aug. 7. Judy Baker, a former state legislator who resigned as a…
Baptist candidate loses race
By Bob Allen A Missouri Baptist minister’s wife and seminary graduate finished second in a crowded field of six Democrats running for lieutenant governor in statewide primary elections Aug. 7. Judy Baker, a former state legislator who resigned as a…
Pastors call for Thomas Nelson boycott
By Bob Allen A group of Cincinnati pastors and church leaders is boycotting Thomas Nelson Publishers over David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies, saying it glosses over the third president’s racism and justifies his ownership of slaves. Black and white…
BTSR receives $1 million gift from Baugh Foundation
RICHMOND, Va.—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 press release….
Social media bigger deal than survey says
By Jeff Brumley A survey’s finding that few Americans use social media to connect with churches and other religious groups has those who conducted the research astonished. “We were a little bit surprised,” Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public…
Don’t count out the church organ just yet
By Jeff Brumley There are times, Shaun King says, when worship music should be energetic, light or joyful. That’s when instruments like pianos, drums and guitars do the trick. But then there are times when the sound needs to be…
OUT LOUD
“Much of the world refers to America as a Christian nation, but most of our Christian leaders don’t think so. The Bible only uses the word ‘Christian’ to describe people and not countries.” Leith Anderson The president of the National…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Study: Pastors’ concerns for others may harm their own health
Most members of the clergy are taught to put the physical and spiritual needs of others first, but that self-denial may be harmful to their own health, according to a new Duke University study, which suggests it can be difficult…
EDITORIAL: It’s time for the dreaded ‘talk’
Like a procrastinating parent reluctant to have “the talk,” I’ve been putting off a conversation I knew we needed to have. It’s the old “good news-bad news” conundrum. First, the bad news: Beginning October 1, we are having to raise…
Christians turn to public education as call to service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP)—A new kind of “school choice” agenda is gaining ground as more and more young adults’—including Christians concerned about social justice—choose teaching in public schools over more lucrative and less challenging careers. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan…