By Bob Allen Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a North Carolina pastor’s sermon suggesting that gays and lesbians should be quarantined and allowed to die off that went…
AU says anti-gay sermon broke tax law
AU says pastor’s anti-gay sermon broke tax law
By Bob Allen Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a North Carolina pastor’s sermon suggesting that gays and lesbians should be quarantined and allowed to die off that went…
Students on flight diverted by bomb scare
By Bob Allen Passsengers aboard a May 22 flight from Paris to Charlotte diverted to Bangor, Maine, due to a bomb scare included students from Campbellsville University returning home from a mission trip to Niger. Students from the Kentucky Baptist…
Bible verse lands lawmaker in controversy
By Bob Allen A Mississippi lawmaker and bivocational Southern Baptist minister is refusing to back down for backing up his opposition to gay marriage with an Old Testament Bible passage that calls for homosexuals to be put to death. After…
Trial nears for accused peeping evangelist
By Bob Allen A former traveling Southern Baptist evangelist and popular youth speaker under investigation in three states for video voyeurism has so far escaped prison in exchange for guilty pleas in two cases but now faces a June 25…
ABP rolls out web upgrade
By Bob Allen Today, Associated Baptist Press unveils a long-overdue website upgrade to better function as the primary delivery system of the nation’s first and only independent news service created by and for Baptists. Made possible by a grant from…
Haitians push N.C. congregation out of comfort zone
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (ABP)—Nobody in Mount Olive, N.C., was quite prepared for an influx of Haitian immigrants seeking low-paying jobs in area poultry processing plants, but the community’s First Baptist Church viewed the challenge as an opportunity. Dennis Atwood knew…
Haitians push church out of comfort zone
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (ABP)—Nobody in Mount Olive, N.C., was quite prepared for an influx of Haitian immigrants seeking low-paying jobs in area poultry processing plants, but the community’s First Baptist Church viewed the challenge as an opportunity. Dennis Atwood knew…
Haitians push church out of comfort zone
Jeff Brumley Nobody in Mount Olive, N.C., was quite prepared for an influx of Haitian immigrants seeking low-paying jobs in area poultry processing plants, but the community’s First Baptist Church viewed the challenge as an opportunity. Dennis Atwood knew that…
Lee Porter, longtime SBC officer, dies
By Bob Allen Lee Porter, a former Southern Baptist Convention leader who worked to ensure the integrity of voting in contentious ballots for the SBC presidency during a tumultuous era in the nation’s second-largest religious body, died May 17. He…
As Vestal retires, CBF ponders future
By Lance Wallace The 22nd annual Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 20-23 in Fort Worth, Texas, features a key vote on the 2012 Task Force report and the final sermon from Daniel Vestal as executive coordinator. More than 1,500…