The leader of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Church Starts Initiative and host of the Fellowship’s award-winning podcast has accepted a call to serve as senior pastor of a leading CBF church in Louisiana. Andy Hale, who has directed CBF Church Starts since 2014, will begin in June as senior pastor of University Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La.
It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
