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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship marks anniversary with laughter, hope

TAMPA, Fla.– The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looked back in laughter and forward in hope at a celebration banquet marking its 20th anniversary June 22. So-called moderates who lost a bitter 12-year battle for control of the Southern Baptist Convention founded…

Women ministers gaining ground in Baptist life, report indicates

TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Women are making slow but steady progress into ministry positions in Baptist churches, according to a report released June 22 by Baptist Women in Ministry. The fourth State of Women in Baptist Life report by the…

Anniversary speaker labels CBF a ‘movement of the Spirit’

TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Two decades after forming as a “new spiritual home place” for disenfranchised Southern Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship now is “called as a movement of the Spirit,” the keynote speaker at a 20th anniversary celebration banquet…

Reduced financial contributions still a problem, CBF council members told

TAMPA, Fla. — Sagging financial contributions remain a challenge for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, members of the group’s Coordinating Council were told June 22. Current receipts are running at about 82 percent of the $14.5 million budget for 2010-2011, said…

BJC defends limits on lawsuits against religious organizations

WASHINGTON (ABP) – The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined other groups in a legal brief arguing that a teacher fired by a Christian school should not be allowed to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities…

Christian convictions are not the law of the land

By Zachary Bailes “That is aimed, number one, at Sharia law,” Land said. “The imposition of Sharia law as an alternative at any level of the American legal system –- let me be clear about this -– violates the Constitution…

Global evangelical leaders: church declining in North, surging in South

Americans distinguish between politicians’ financial, sexual failings

AFA’s Bryan Fischer accuses SBC of pandering to gays, illegal aliens

TUPELO, Miss. (ABP) – A prominent conservative social activist has accused the Southern Baptist Convention of pandering to gays and illegal immigrants. Bryan Fischer Bryan Fischer, radio talk show host and spokesman for the American Family Association, commented in a…

What will we do with failure?

By Bill Wilson Failure. Just saying the word in the same sentence as our name makes us nervous. Far too often, failure and ministry go together. Frequently, failure is the last word for ministers and churches. Many ministers’ inner life…

Scapegoating behind anti-immigration laws

By Roger Olson Yet another state, populated largely by people who consider themselves Christians, has apparently criminalized Christian behavior toward illegal immigrants. At least according to the Associated Press which says in an article published in my local newspaper June…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system