Associated Baptist Press The website is a new ministry of Baptist Standard Publishing, parent company of the Baptist Standard. The 123-year-old organization will continue to publish the newspaper and its digital news products. FaithVillage.com will provide Christian community and an…
Shepherd’s Clinic provides service to working poor
By Alice Horner It’s Tuesday afternoon in what at first looks like a typical doctor’s office. Phones are ringing and copiers beeping. Then there is something different: laughter. Employees and patients are really enjoying themselves. Welcome to Shepherd’s Clinic, a…
Minister says ‘personhood’ bill violates separation of church and state
By Bob Allen A Baptist minister said Feb. 28 that Oklahoma’s proposed “personhood bill” would violate religious freedom because it makes a particular theological view of when life begins the law of the land. Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream…
Union’s impact on life leads retired pastor to collective bargaining table
CBF council member hurt in wreck
A By Bob Allen North Carolina pastor is recovering from injuries received in an accident while returning home from last week’s meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council. Roger Gilbert, pastor of First Baptist Church in Mount Airy, N.C.,…
Shepherd’s Clinic provides service to working poor
BALTIMORE (ABP) — It’s Tuesday afternoon in what at first looks like a typical doctor’s office. Phones are ringing and copiers beeping. Then there is something different: laughter. Employees and patients are really enjoying themselves. Welcome to Shepherd’s Clinic, a…
Faith leaders condemn Franklin Graham for questioning Obama’s faith
By Bob Allen Heads of four historically black Baptist denominations joined other faith leaders Feb. 28 in an open letter condemning recent comments by Franklin Graham questioning whether President Obama is a Christian. Signed by leaders of the Progressive National…
Are mainline splits a new Reformation or old news?
NEW YORK (RNS) — There’s a popular saying in church-planting circles: It’s easier to make babies than to raise the dead. That principle applies to denominations as well, said Paul Detterman, who helped found the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians…
Are mainline splits a new Reformation or old news?
NEW YORK (RNS) — There’s a popular saying in church-planting circles: It’s easier to make babies than to raise the dead. That principle applies to denominations as well, said Paul Detterman, who helped found the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians…
Baptists oppose gay-marriage ban
By Bob Allen About 100 people attended a statewide rally Feb. 25 at a Baptist church to oppose an upcoming vote to ban gay marriage in North Carolina. The gathering at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., was the…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…