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Faith and Fitness: Divinity student joins worship, fitness discipline

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Claire McKeever, a Baylor University graduate studying for the ministry at Vanderbilt Divinity School, preaches that worship isn’t just for the soul. Claire McKeever leads a Nia dance session at Glendale Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn….

Faith and Fitness: Exercise good until it becomes a false god

NEW YORK (ABP) — The sixth chapter of First Corinthians describes the body as “a temple of the Holy Spirit.” For many Christians that means what they do with their body matters to God, including physical fitness. A few, however,…

Faith and Fitness: Clinic preaches the gospel of fitness

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Fitness can, literally, be a life-and-death issue for people in underprivileged communities. So a Christian medical ministry in one of the nation’s poorest big cities is preaching the gospel of fitness through local churches. Minister and…

Preach good news, proclaim freedom, seminary president urges Baptists

HONOLULU (ABP) — Preach Christ’s good news and proclaim freedom, seminary president Pablo Deiros challenged participants at the 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu July 29. “As Baptists, we need to realize the proclamation of the good news is the…

Son of church secretary accused of embezzling also charged

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (ABP) — Police in Morristown, Tenn., have made a second arrest in the investigation of a longtime financial secretary accused of embezzling $1.5 million from a Southern Baptist church. According to local media, Michael Whitt, 42, has been…

Getting a life — and giving life

By Amy Butler When young pastors ask me for advice on self-care (insert uproarious laughter here) I always say that one very important part of survival in the trenches of ministry is getting a life. Outside the church. While one…

BWA admits Vietnamese, Zambian, D.C. bodies, bids Coffey farewell

HONOLULU (ABP) — Some of the globe’s most persecuted Christians found an international home when the Baptist World Alliance admitted the Baptist Churches in Vietnam into the global organization. The BWA’s General Council voted full membership July 28 to the…

Listen to the Spirit, Coffey urges Baptist World Congress

HONOLULU (ABP) — Human effort and creative strategies lead to futility apart from an anointing by God’s Holy Spirit, British Baptist leader David Coffey told the opening session of the Baptist World Congress July 28 in Honolulu. Outgoing BWA president…

U.S. denies visas to 1,000 Baptists

HONOLULU (ABP) — As many as 1,000 people who had registered for the Baptist World Congress this year were unable to attend because they were denied visas by the United States government, leaders of the Baptist World Alliance said July…

Listen to the Spirit, receive the Spirit’s anointing, Coffey urges

HONOLULU — Human effort and creative strategies lead to futility apart from an anointing by God’s Holy Spirit, British Baptist leader David Coffey told the opening session of the Baptist World Congress, July 28 in Honolulu. Coffey, who completes his…

U.S. denies visas to about 1,000 hoping to attend World Congress

HONOLULU — As many as 1,000 people who had registered for the Baptist World Alliance’s Congress this year were unable to attend because they were denied visas by the U.S. government, leaders of the global Baptist organization said July 28….

Vietnamese churches join Baptist World Alliance following vote

HONOLULU — Some of the globe’s most persecuted Christians found an international home when the Baptist World Alliance admitted the Baptist Churches in Vietnam into the global organization. The BWA’s General Council voted full membership July 28 to the Vietnamese…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war