Baptist News Global

OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) — Payday lending traps many of America’s working poor in a vortex of debt, participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite meeting in Oklahoma City learned. Each New Baptist Covenant facility focused on a mission project,…

Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate

In Oklahoma City, New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

OKLAHOMA CITY — Payday lending traps many of America’s working poor in a vortex of debt, participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite meeting in Oklahoma City learned. Each New Baptist Covenant facility focused on a mission project, and…

Speak up for justice, preachers tell crowd at Oklahoma City satellite

OKLAHOMA CITY — The world’s brokenness calls out for Christians who will speak courageously on behalf of justice and fairness, a trio of pastors told participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite sessions in Oklahoma City. About 200 people…

NBC initiative is valuable but more to be done, says Philadelphia organizer

PHILADELPHIA — Initiatives such at the New Baptist Covenant II help lower racial barriers, but there is “still a lot of work to do,” said a south Philadelphia pastor who helped organize a satellite viewing of the three-day event. “I’ve…

Cindy Elmore joins staff of Foundation as director of donor relations

RICHMOND, Va. — Cindy R. Elmore has joined the staff of the Virginia Baptist Foundation as director of donor relations. Elmore, a former development director for non-profits in Virginia, assumed her role in early October. Cindy Elmore As the Foundation’s…

N.C. students ‘do interfaith’ through universal language of music

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Say the word “interfaith” and the next word to roll off the tongue is probably “dialogue.” It’s hard to think of one without the other. But college students know there are other ways to communicate, and…

‘Doing interfaith’ in a musical way

Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity

ATLANTA (ABP) – Former President Jimmy Carter told veteran journalist Bob Abernethy that he’s seen progress in areas that prompted him to convene a New Baptist Covenant gathering in 2008 and New Baptist Covenant II gatherings scattered across nine locations…

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing

OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate

In Oklahoma City, New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

Speak up for justice, preachers tell crowd at Oklahoma City satellite

NBC initiative is valuable but more to be done, says Philadelphia organizer

Cindy Elmore joins staff of Foundation as director of donor relations

N.C. students ‘do interfaith’ through universal language of music

‘Doing interfaith’ in a musical way

Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity

New Baptist Covenant speakers proclaim ‘release’ to captives

Christ the King

President Obama honors Heavy D in statement read at the rapper’s funeral

Together for Hope marks 25 years by asking, “How do you write the future?”

Who Decides War and Peace? Lebanon After the New Regional Agreement

54 Countries, One Survey, A Lot of Religion

From ‘feigele’ to free: What does it mean to be LGBTQ+ and Orthodox?

Featured

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing