Baptist News Global

What’s next for New Baptist Covenant?

ATLANTA (ABP) — Fifteen thousand participants in the New Baptist Covenant convocation arrived in Atlanta Jan. 30 seeking unity in Christ and departed Feb. 1 wondering where their quest will lead. In the meantime, they demonstrated racial, theological and geographic…

No politics in celebration

Making good on his promise that the New Baptist Covenant celebration would not be political in nature, former president Jimmy Carter set the tone for the meeting in a news conference before the opening session. Asked by a reporter from…

EDITORIAL: Was the celebration a success?

I was asked by a friend at breakfast the morning after the New Baptist Covenant Celebration what three things stood out as having made the greatest impact. I thought back over the three-day meeting, and what follows are the three…

SECOND OPINION: Disciple methods need to change

I have known Roy Edgemon for many years and I can testify that nobody has a bigger heart for discipleship than he. Recently Dr. Edgemon sounded a clarion call for Baptists to change their methods of discipleship [“Time to revamp…

Axioms of religion

Exactly a century ago this year, in 1908, Edgar Young Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, published his landmark interpretation of Baptist faith and principles which he entitled The Axioms of Religion. Baptists in the pews and Baptists…

Randel Everett tapped as Texas nominee

DALLAS (ABP) — Randel Everett, who has headed a seminary and served as pastor of prominent churches in four states, is the nominee for the executive director position of the largest statewide Baptist convention. Baptist General Convention of Texas officials…

Former BGAV leader Ken McFarland Smith dies

ARLINGTON — Ken McFarlane Smith, former president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, died Jan. 20. Smith, an attorney and member of First Baptist Church of Clarendon in Arlington, was BGAV president in 1977. He also has served as…

Baptist ministry assistants gather for certification

Baptist Ministry Assistants of Virginia (BMAV) will gather in Virginia Beach April 1-4 for professional certification and skillshops at the Quality Inn & Suites — Oceanfront. The theme for this conference is “Teaching by the Seaside” and is taken from…

Essay contest announced

RICHMOND — High school students are invited to enter the third annual Roots & Wings Young Scholars Essay Contest sponsored by the Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies. The contest is open to all 11th and 12th grade high school…

Seminar set on Islam

EMPORIA — Muslim beliefs will be part of the focus of a one-day seminar on Islam presented at Main Street Baptist Church in Emporia on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Christians Look at Islam: Islam in…

Huckabee, McCain, Dems left as Romney drops out of race

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Mike Huckabee's Feb. 5 assertion that he is now in a “two-man race” was ratified Feb. 7 when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney dropped out of the Republican contest for the presidency. With an announcement to Washington…

Victims, Baptists focus on relief after deadly storms

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Baptist churches and organizations are both suffering and helping in the wake of deadly tornadoes that devastated the Mid-South Feb. 5-6. According to initial National Weather Service reports, more than 60 tornadoes struck Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky…

Islamophobia is the next bogeyman

The Black Church cannot remain America’s emergency moral infrastructure

We are manna

Webinar explores religious context of America’s Founders