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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the last remaining lions of the Civil Rights Movement, received the Whitsitt Courage Award at a meeting of Baptist historians in Memphis, Tenn., June 19. The award honors individuals who demonstrate “Baptist…

WASHINGTON (ABP)—In all of America’s brouhaha over whether legalizing same-sex marriage will sully the institution’s sanctity, very few Christians are asking one important question: When—and why—did the government get into the sanctification business? When the preacher, at the end of…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — The struggle for civil rights is not over, and moderate Baptists must carry the cause, journalists exhorted participants at the annual Associated Baptist Press dinner June 19 in Memphis, Tenn. On various levels and in numerous…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship commissioned 18 people for global missions service June 18 in a history-making place — a local church. Traditionally, CBF has commissioned new personnel at the same venue in which each annual meeting…

A liturgical dancer performs during a commissioning service for 18 new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel June 18 at the First Baptist Church of Memphis, Tenn. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship commissioned 18 people for global missions…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Andrea Zintzun, 16, knows she’s been blessed by others, so packing boxes of rice at the Memphis Food Bank just seemed like a good thing to do.   “There are people who blessed us, and we need…

More than 60 participants at the June 18-20 CBF General Assembly in Memphis, Tenn., arrived early to take part in local missions projects. Above, students work at the Memphis Food Bank. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Andrea Zintzun, 16, knows she’s…

ST. LOUIS (ABP) — This fall, Missouri Baptist University in suburban St. Louis will join a handful of other schools nationwide in offering a women’s wrestling program. MBU officials hope the program will help more of the small liberal-arts institution’s…

On the first day of their June 16-17 board meeting, directors learned the organization’s executive committee had hired Nelda Seal, former executive director of Louisiana WMU, for the post 11 days earlier. On June 17, members introduced a bylaws revision…

Hunt’s influence remained profound over the next 34 years as a volunteer worker with the Baptist World Alliance, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Foreign (now International) Mission Board, Global Women and numerous Virginia Baptist organizations. “[Alma Hunt] heralded the cause of…

The move came in response to a motion, passed nearly unanimously by messengers to last year’s SBC meeting, asking officials to study the database idea. Oklahoma pastor and former International Mission Board trustee Wade Burleson requested a feasibility study for…