Two weekends ago I had the delightful experience of leading a deacons’ retreat for Cradock Baptist Church. Taking a break from PowerPoint presentations we looked to the internet for inspiration and found it on YouTube. I first saw the Battle…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE Jeff Harris, to Calvary Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., as pastor. Jeff Mathis, to First Baptist Church, Sylva, N.C., as pastor. Robert Moon, resigning as interim pastor of Middleburg (Va.) Baptist Church. Kyle Bauman, to Durham (N.C.)…
Portsmouth, Va., class has been gathering for 52 years
PORTSMOUTH, Va.—Although almost every community has a number of developmentally-challenged citizens, most churches don’t quite know how to provide for them. Cradock Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Va., however, sees ministry to this group as one of its primary missions. Since…
Prof: Shorter limiting academic freedom
By Bob Allen One of the dozens of faculty leaving Shorter University over the Baptist-affiliated school’s controversial new “lifestyle statement,” that includes rejecting homosexuality, blamed his departure in part on demands that he teach Creationism or Intelligent Design in science…
McAfee student and Lost Boy: Questioning God is healthy
AU says 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…
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…