DALLAS (ABP) – The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted Sept. 27 to recommend a budget that reduces funding for Baylor University while giving more dollars to 10 other schools. The spending plan, to be recommended to messengers…
CBF young leader network sponsoring Kentucky retreat
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) – Current, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s young leaders’ network, is sponsoring three regional meetings as a way to reach out to a new crop of young seminarians and those in their first call as clergy. The first…
EDITORIAL: Getting churches and pastors right — or wrong?
Dear Jimmy, Well, your Uncle Orley and I have pret’ near wrapped up all the loose ends of summer. The garden has played out and every shelf in the cellar is filled with clear quart or pint jars full of…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE Claude Gunn, to Zion Hill Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Va., as pastor. Robert “Bob” Setzer Jr., to Knollwood Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., as pastor. He was pastor of First Baptist Church, Macon, Ga. Mike Winters, to Wise…
Play the ball where it lays
Recently I heard the story of a golf course that had quite a unique problem — a monkey infestation. (I think this course must have been in India!) It created all kinds of issues on the golf course. The golfers…
Volunteer mission teams need career missionaries
By Larry Hovis At the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina General Assembly in March, we collected a mission offering designated for the newly formed Haiti Housing Network. CBF is one of the principal partners in this network, which has…
Israel policy debate not just secular vs. religious
By David Gushee Last week Glen Stassen and I released an “Open Letter to America’s Christian Zionists.” We claimed that out of a well-intentioned love of Israel, Christian Zionists are misreading Scripture and actually endangering Israel. Christian Zionists yearn for…
A guide to the Jewish fall holy day season
By Rabi Rami Shapiro We Jews are in the early weeks of our fall holy day period. There are three parts to this season that are of spiritual interest: Selichot, Yamim Noraim and Sukkot. The month of Elulis is the…
The separation of politics and pew
By Amy Butler It’s not even the calendar year in which the next presidential election will be held and I’m already annoyed. There are many reasons, but I’m largely annoyed that Christian voters are getting so much attention from election…
Calling for the end of capital punishment
By Blake Hark The world has been captivated by the case of death-row inmate Troy Davis, and rightfully so. His innocence claims were staggering, and the fact that the state of Georgia went forward with his execution despite such doubts…
Telling a better Baptist story
By Chris Hughes There is power in stories, especially in ministry. Stories define us and help us navigate our way through times of change. Having hope for the future of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship means we remember our story and…
Whom shall we kill?
By Zachary Bailes Troy Davis has been denied clemency by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Our country witnesses, once again, a flawed system at work. From the pope to Jimmy Carter, leaders are calling for a stay…