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Bluefield’s enrollment up

BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College began the fall 2009 semester with a 22 percent increase in new student enrollment and the highest new traditional student figures since the fall of 2006. Traditional new student numbers at BC — including new freshmen,…

Healing the Sick: Religious groups fighting to prevent reform debacle

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The last time a president attempted comprehensive reform of America’s health-insurance system, it went over like the proverbial lead balloon — and conservative religious groups were prominent in the coalition that helped sink the plan. President Clinton’s…

Healing the Sick: Faith-based providers crucial to health reform

Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. DALLAS (ABP) — Faith-based health-care providers can lead the way in developing new models that emphasize wellness and prevention — and create accountable care organizations focused on the needs of patients and their families,…

Healing the Sick: Baylor profs propose alternative reform model

WACO, Texas (ABP) — The United States does not have a health-care problem as much as it has an insurance problem and an income problem, two economists at Baylor University have asserted. And they insist those problems can be solved…

Healing the Sick: Spiritual component key part of parish nursing

BELTON, Texas (ABP) — While a parish nurse could be a boon to the health of many Baptist congregations, many of them — and most nursing students — have little awareness such a ministry exists, according to a Baptist nursing…

Former BWA president Nilson Fanini dies

BEDFORD, Texas (ABP) — Nilson Fanini, a Brazilian Baptist pastor who led the Baptist World Alliance from 1990 to 1995, died Sept. 19 after a brief illness. Fanini, 77, was hospitalized Sept. 13 with pneumonia while visiting a new granddaughter…

Church-state groups press Holder to withdraw Bush-era hiring memo

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Supporters of the separation of church and state are urging Attorney General Eric Holder to fulfill a campaign promise by President Obama to combat religious discrimination in hiring. The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the…

Florida principal, athletic director not guilty of contempt of court

PENSACOLA, Fla. (ABP) — A federal judge in Florida ruled Sept. 17 that a blessing at an athletic banquet did not violate her court order telling a school district's leaders to refrain from promoting religious activity at school events. Following…

‘By the power vested in …’ what?

By Drew Zimmer As our nation continues to argue over the legality of same-sex marriage and the dangers it may potentially pose to religious freedom, I am left wondering about a more basic question few Baptists seem to be pondering,…

EDITORIAL: Dr. Micah’s health care prescription

What will our nation do about health care? That question dominates the American social and political landscape this autumn. But another question hovers in the mists of that landscape. It’s almost as important and perhaps even more troubling: Will U.S….

Open mission positions may be ‘God moment,’ says SBC task force chair

ROGERS, Ark. (ABP) — Impending vacancies in the top leadership positions of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two mission boards offer unique opportunities for the denomination, says the chair of a task force examining how the SBC should most effectively structure…

Theologian-scientist says there are pathways between two disciplines

ATLANTA (ABP) — There are paths between science and theology, and both can find value in interaction, noted author and professor of science and theology Robert Russell told an audience at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology Sept. 15. Robert…

Molly Marshall announces 2027 retirement

She preached anyway

It’s time to listen to the prophets

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is no more