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...
“I left you behind in Crete for this reason, so that you should put in order what remained to be done, and should appoint elders in every town, as I directed you” (Titus 1:5, NRSV). It is standard Baptist…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Church history professor Bill J. Leonard has been named the first James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, officials at the school in Winston-Salem, N.C., announced Sept….
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP) — Seeing a life changed because of Jesus will draw people to faith, says Dennis Pethers, a British evangelist who closely observes dynamics in the United Kingdom’s increasingly post-Christian society. A former atheist, he credits C.S. Lewis…
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 in the execution,…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (ABP) – A state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is offering cash incentives for churches searching for a pastor to consider a female candidate as part of the process. The CBF of Missouri offered Sept. 17 to pay interview, travel…
ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Missouri Baptist University recently contributed $9,000 to the Pujols Family Foundation as the first gift in a partnership the university plans to continue. Missouri Baptist University President Alton Lacey (second, left) gives St. Louis Cardinals First…
GUNTERVILLE, Ala. (ABP) – An Alabama Baptist Convention spokesman explained why Baptist churches aren’t joining Methodists, Episcopalians, Catholics and others in protesting the state’s anti-illegal immigration law. “I don’t have the right to speak for the Baptists, because they haven’t…
Norman Jameson WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Norman Jameson, a veteran Baptist journalist whose bylines have appeared recently in Associated Baptist Press, has joined the advancement staff at Wake Forest University. Jameson, 58, serves as assistant dean for development for the WFU…
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…
