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Baptist colleges prepare strategies for dealing with campus incidents

BELTON, Texas (ABP) — Police cars and fire engines lined the streets on the north side of the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor campus April 18. Paramedics carried students on stretchers and loaded them into ambulances. This time, it was just…

Refugees from Myanmar find New York, Baptist connections

BUFFALO, N.Y. (ABP) — Two Baptist missionaries, after serving 15 years in Thailand, have been reassigned to work with thousands of Karen refugees in the United States and Thailand. The move is noteworthy because the United States recently changed a…

Wife of slain pastor convicted of voluntary manslaughter

SELMER, Tenn. (ABP) — Mary Winkler, the wife of a slain Church of Christ pastor in Tennessee, was convicted April 19 of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser charge than the prosecution wanted. Winkler, 33, was charged in the 2006 slaying of…

Va. Tech: Some Christian leaders offer solace; others blame ‘godlessness’

BLACKSBURG, Va. (ABP) — Christian leaders have begun to respond to the April 16 tragedy at Virginia Tech with words of solace — while a few blame the tragedy on America's 'godlessness.' Most haven't attempted to explain the massacre, saying…

Five Baptist-affiliated students among 32 dead at Va. Tech

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — At least six of the 32 dead in the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech had ties to Baptist churches in Virginia, say Baptist leaders who are monitoring emerging details of the deadly shooting. MSNBC has…

Virginia Tech students gather at Baptist ministry center

Blacksburg, Va., is a wounded city. With 26,000 students, Virginia Tech is the dominant presence in the town usually bustling with students crisscrossing the campus and spilling over into the streets of the burg. Not Monday. JIM WHITE Although barraged…

Grieving students, others pack VT’s covocation

The day after a student gunman killed 32 students and professors on the campus of Virginia Tech, thousands more than expected attended a solemn convocation to honor the dead and comfort the grieving. The day was sunny and mild but…

The church in parenthesis

When pastors leave congregations, their former churches often face what could be termed a punctuation crisis.Some mark the departure with a period, as the end of a sentence—either for the minister or the congregation. Others approach it with a question…

Churches show lasting benefits from intentional interim ministry, study says

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Churches that go through the intentional interim ministry process show lasting benefits, recent research has demonstrated. The Center for Congregational Health examined churches 24 to 36 months after they completed the intentional interim process, paying particular attention to how…

Churches seeking pastors put plenty of hooks in the water

RICHMOND—What's in a name? For churches seeking a new minister, the bottom line is collecting names of candidates—and lots of them. That's not always an easy task, and search committees typically discover it takes a variety of approaches to create…

Self-examination benefits church with pastor, too

PLAINVIEW, Texas—At some point, every church needs to step back and re-evaluate its purpose. Micheal Summers, Wayland Baptist University's director of church services, believes an intentional interim minister can most effectively lead churches through that process, but churches with pastors…

Herald launches publishing partnership with Baptist media

RICHMOND — The Religious Herald has launched a publishing partnership with three other Baptist news organizations which will allow it to expand its news coverage and offer more attractive and dynamic design features. Joining the Herald in the venture —…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church