CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – Thirty-three people wearing “I Support Hector” badges packed Immigration Court in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 2 for the hearing of a Hispanic church planter facing possible deportation. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina worked hard to…
North Carolina CBF rallies around pastor during deportation threat
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — Thirty-three people wearing “I Support Hector” badges packed Immigration Court in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 2 for the hearing of a Hispanic church planter facing possible deportation. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina worked hard to…
Judge grants Villanueva motion to stay in US
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — An immigration judge granted a motion Sept. 2 allowing a Baptist church planter facing possible deportation to Mexico to remain in the United States. Martha and Hector Villanueva share emotional moments with friend Alma Benitez, wife…
Church embezzler gets 44 months in prison
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (ABP) – A 70-year-old widow who stole $1.5 million as financial secretary of a Baptist church was sentenced Sept. 1 to 44 months in prison. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Barbara Whitt, who pleaded guilty in February to bank…
Prosecutors want information from church about former minister suspected of child abuse
CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) – A Baptist church in Mississippi says an internal investigation into a former staff member who confessed to “sexual indiscretions” with younger males two decades ago is confidential and cannot be turned over to a grand jury….
Conference to nurture ‘new kind of Christianity’
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is among sponsors of a four-day meeting next May to discuss ways to train up children and youth in a “new kind of Christianity.” Scheduled May 7-10, 2012, at Calvary Baptist Church in…
Debate over Adam and Eve continues
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Recent comments by a Southern Baptist seminary president that belief in a literal Adam and Eve is necessary to correctly understand Christ’s saving work continues to prompt debate. Brian McLaren Brian McLaren, author of A New…
Baptist adopts 30-days-on-$30 fast
LONDON (ABP) — Bland, boring food tastes like a gourmet treat to a person subsisting on $1 a day, Nathan Adair discovered. “When you are really hungry, one raisin is like eating an ice cream sundae. Twenty-five-cent canned vegetable soup…
At 39, Gordon president leads evangelical up-and-comers
WENHAM, Mass. (RNS) — For the past decade, sociologist D. Michael Lindsay has been living the very phenomenon he’s studied in depth: evangelicals climbing the ranks of secular institutions and becoming American elites. Yet in a surprise move, this 39-year-old…
Evangelical up-and-comer
WENHAM, Mass. (RNS) — For the past decade, sociologist D. Michael Lindsay has been living the very phenomenon he’s studied in depth: evangelicals climbing the ranks of secular institutions and becoming American elites. Yet in a surprise move, this 39-year-old…
Americans flunk question on quote: Captain America or Bible?
(RNS) — Pop quiz: Who said “We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don't know what to do, we never give up”? According to a recent poll, more Americans attributed the passage to comic book hero…
Richmond churches offer showers, laundry to neighbors still in dark
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Two churches in the Richmond, Va., area are offering showers, laundry facilities and ice to thousands in the city still without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Irene. First Baptist Church of Richmond and Bon Air…