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First ‘create’ cohort earns degrees

By Bob Allen Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kan., held a ceremony Dec. 8 for the first eight graduates of the create Program, a unique master-of-divinity degree program launched in the fall of 2009. The three-year program groups students…

Military college planned for holy mount

By Bob Allen Christian organizations around the world are asking members to sign an online petition protesting plans by Israel’s interior ministry to build a military academy on the Mount of Olives, a holy site for three world religions made…

Controversial King memorial inscription set to be erased, not replaced

Christianity not ‘fading away’ says Archbishop ahead of census figures

Underwater archaeologists claims evidence for Noah’s flood

The generosity experiment

If Simon Peter’s brother, Andrew, had found an adult with a lunch of five barley loaves and two fish, instead of a young boy, I’m not sure the 5000 would have been fed that day. “My little lunch is not even…

When Christmas isn’t the ‘Most Wonderful Time of the Year’

‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! Only it’s not. Not for everyone. Not when he’s still…

Hong Kong Baptist U. prof censured

By Bob Allen A Hong Kong Baptist University professor will lose his job for publishing unsubstantiated claims about another university in a controversial book that has been denounced as politically motivated. Radio Television Hong Kong reported Dec. 12 that Professor…

Accrediting agency puts Virginia Intermont on probation, cites continued financial stability concern

BRISTOL, Va. — Virginia Intermont College has been placed on probation for the next six months by its accrediting agency — the most recent action taken by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges related to the…

Concerns about proposed solar project at Baptist conference center in N.C. to be aired at hearing

RIDGECREST, N.C. — A proposed solar energy project on the grounds of a Baptist conference center in western North Carolina will be considered at a public hearing Jan. 9 in Asheville, after the state’s utilities commission received complaints about the…

‘The Hobbit’ as Advent journey

By Darrell Gwaltney “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit,” so begins J.R.R. Tokien’s The Hobbit or There and Back Again. In preparation for The Hobbit: An UnExpected Journey opening this weekend, I picked up my old…

Tennessee Baptist leader says goodbye

By Bob Allen A past president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention who served on numerous key committees over the years is saying goodbye to attendance at annual meetings, explaining the organization has become so theologically narrow that it is no…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children