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Georgia Baptists target second church with woman pastor

Editor's note: This story was updated March 19. ATLANTA (ABP) — For the second straight year, the Georgia Baptist Convention is poised to cut ties with a historic member congregation over the issue of women in ministry. The convention's execitive…

BGCT asks Dallas church to clarify its stance on welcoming gays

DALLAS (ABP) — Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders have announced they will escrow any money received from a Dallas church until it clarifies its position on homosexual behavior. They also have asked the church to remove from its publications…

Widow files lawsuit in police shooting of slain Baptist pastor

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) — The widow of a Baptist pastor shot and killed last fall by police in Toccoa, Ga., has filed a federal lawsuit alleging "gross and plain incompetence" displayed by an officer's use of deadly force. The lawsuit…

Widow files lawsuit in police shooting death of Baptist pastor

Not ready for a woman?

By Miriam Méndez Listening on the other end of the phone, I was informed by the chairperson of a search committee why they had decided not to pursue me. “Rev. Méndez, we were very impressed with your interview and you…

Church-autonomy inquiries from a naïve Baptist

By Cody Sanders I grew up Baptist through and through — but when I got to seminary, I had a denominational identity crisis. As my theology grew and expanded, I questioned whether I might find a more suitable home in…

Virginia law’s loophole lets woman kill newborn

RUSTBURG, Va. (BP) — A Virginia woman who allegedly suffocated her newborn baby hasn’t been charged with murder because the umbilical cord was still attached to the placenta which was still in the mother. According to Captain L.T. Guthrie of…

Study says majority of world’s population faces religious restriction

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Nearly 70 percent of the world’s 6.8 billion people live in countries with high restrictions on religion, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Titled Global Restrictions on…

Dobson plans new radio ministry, to focus on same themes

COLORADO SPRINGS (RNS) — Religious broadcaster James Dobson will leave the “Focus on the Family” radio program in late February but will continue on the airwaves through a new ministry. Officials at the Colorado-based ministry that Dobson founded three decades…

Once more, Georgia Baptists poised to cut ties to church with woman pastor

ATLANTA (ABP) — For the second straight year, the Georgia Baptist Convention is poised to cut ties with a church over the issue of women in ministry. Graham Walker, co-pastor of Druid Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, said March 18…

VIRGINIA BRIEFS

Virginia Baptist scholarship applications available. Applications for Baptist General Association of Virginia Scholarships and ministerial educational funds for the 2010-2011 academic year are available online at www.vbmb.org/ scholarships and are due by April 1, 2010. Through Cooperative Missions dollars, the…

Bluefield College board honors donors, elects officers

BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College’s board of trustees recognized two alumni for their contributions to the school and elected officers and new trustees during its recent annual fall meeting. During a ceremony in Harman Chapel, the board paid tribute to…

Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention