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State CBF proposal sparks debate about Baptist identity

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — A move by the North Carolina Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to revisit its foundational statement has prompted a nationwide debate among scholars about what it means to be a Baptist. Larry Hovis, coordinator of North Carolina CBF,…

A special note to ABPNews.com users

Dear users: We are contacting you to follow up on an alert e-mailed to ABPnews.com e-mail subscribers and shared on Facebook and Twitter yesterday regarding access to our website. We are pleased to report that as of Saturday, September 18, the…

Skateboarder an overnight sensation after rescuing Quran

(RNS) At the end of a summer characterized by unprecedented levels of Islamophobia, Muslim Americans and their allies have found an expected reason to smile: Jake Isom, a skateboarder with a rat-tail from Amarillo, Texas. Last Saturday (Sept. 18), Isom,…

Update: Ezell elected NAMB president on split vote

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) — Behind closed doors and by a reportedly divided vote, trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board after a…

Ezell faces enormous challenges

By Charlie Warren Kevin Ezell has been elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. It is a crucial time in NAMB’s history. I sincerely hope he has many very successful years of leading Southern Baptists…

Trustees elect Kentucky pastor as NAMB president on split vote

Alabama CBF elects Ronnie Brewer new state coordinator

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — The Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has tapped a pastor and former campus minister as its new state coordinator. Ronnie and Janet Brewer Ronnie Brewer, senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Madison, Ala., was elected unanimously…

Mohler says he’s embarrassed by past support of women in ministry

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A seminary president who served on a committee that 10 years ago revised the Southern Baptist Convention's confessional document to declare that only men should be pastors told students Sept. 14 that he was embarrassed by…

American Baptist AIDS workers arrested in Zimbabwe

OAKLAND, Calif. (ABP) — Four American Baptist mission volunteers were released Sept. 13 on $200 worth of bond after spending three nights in jail on suspicion of dispensing AIDS medication without a license in Zimbabwe. The health workers — a…

Ezell elected NAMB president

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) — Trustees elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board after a four-hour called meeting Sept. 14. Ezell, pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., was a controversial choice,…

Interview: Kenneth Starr on Baylor’s challenges, Baptist relations

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University will inaugurate Kenneth Starr as its 14th president Sept. 17. As Starr officially takes the helm of the world's largest Baptist institution of higher learning, the school faces a host of opportunities and challenges….

Broadway Baptist Church informs BGCT it will ‘discontinue’ relationship

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A historic Fort Worth church has cut off its 125-year-old relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, saying it doesn't want to be distracted by questions concerning the congregation's position on homosexuality. Broadway Baptist…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

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