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Texas church, mired in controversy over gays in directory, loses pastor

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) – Brett Younger, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113 Fort Worth, Texas, survived a vote to fire him last month but is leavindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113g the church anyway – to become associate professor of preachindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113g at Mercer University's…

Pope, in first visit to United States, praises freedom, dings secularism

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In his first visit to the United States since ascending to the Throne of St. Peter, Pope Benedict XVI hailed America’s religious freedom and pluralism while simultaneously denouncing secularism’s influence. The pontiff’s tour of the United States…

ABP honors Texas convention, announces $100,000 challenge

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — Directors of Associated Baptist Press honored the Baptist General Convention of Texas and announced a $100,000 matching-funds challenge from a Texas Baptist family during their semi-annual meeting, held April 14-15 in San Antonio. “Every year, since…

Taking care of business

Some best practices in the corporate world translate well to the nonprofit sector, including churches, experts insist. And at the same time, churches can benefit by looking at some lessons failed business learned the hard way. Baptists with expertise in…

Good leaders in business and church possess some of the same qualities

The same leadership skills that make many of the best business leaders successful also can enable church leaders to fulfill their potential, some Christian business experts note. “In both worlds, … leaders go first. Leaders set the culture,” said Craig…

BTSR budget shortfall leads to faculty lay-off for four

RICHMOND — Faced with “worrisome” financial challenges, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will downsize its faculty and staff, the school's president announced April 8. Four full-time professors and at least three administrative staff members will be let go in an…

Stewardship is emphasis of children’s resource

Developing giving lives is the emphasis of the new issue of Heritage Seekers magazine for children and their families. The historical character in the issue is the early missionary Luther Rice, who led a sacrificial life while helping Baptists to…

Tech BCM students encourage campus to share ‘love/hate’ comments

BLACKSBURG — Students with the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at Virginia Tech spent the last two weeks of March engaging the campus with discussions about things that polarize, all the while looking for chances to interject the love and hope of…

BGAV’s Caribbean partners begin ministry to ‘diaspora’

NEW YORK (ABP) — With a worship service March 30, a group of ministers officially launched a Baptist fellowship to minster to the Caribbean “diaspora” in English-speaking countries. The Caribbean Diaspora Baptist Clergy Association kicked off its life with a…

‘Photo-evangelism’ shown to be effective new missionary tool

LYNCHBURG — When Ralph and Tammy Stocks answered the call to the mission field, they assumed that their ministries would lead people to Christ. But neither of them imagined that one of their best evangelism methods would be family photos….

SECOND OPINION: The utilitarian temptation

A few weeks ago, I was reminded in a news article that Judge Paul Pressler had actually said, at the beginning of the Southern Baptist controversy, that his side must “go for the jugular.” This is an image of slaying…

Standing fast in liberty

In the days when they called themselves “colored,” the African-American Baptists of Southside Virginia decided that they needed to organize a new district association. Hasadiah Baptist Association was so large that it covered 200 miles across 21 counties and included…

What Disclosure Day reveals about evangelicals’ fears

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