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Religious broadcasters fear viewers may opt out

Evangelical Christians are on the front lines in the battle over indecency on cable television, calling for a pick-and-choose pricing plan that would allow viewers to keep certain channels out of their homes. But on the opposite end of the…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for June 15, 2006

STAFF CHANGES Jim Booth, to Staples Mill Road Church, Glen Allen, as pastor, effective June 25. Kevin Schrum, to Smithland Church, Heathsville, as full-time pastor. Juan Garcia, to First Church, Newport News, as Hispanic pastor. Mike Jones, to Enon Church,…

Correction

In the June 14 ABP story “SBC sends Burleson dispute back to IMB trustees,” please correct the spelling of Robin Hadaway's name in the 15th paragraph. It is Hadaway, not Hattaway.

UPDATED: Amended abstinence resolution calls for all SBC trustees to be teetotalers

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Declaring “our total opposition to the … consuming of alcoholic beverages,” Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopted a strongly worded resolution on the issue June 14. Messengers adopted 15 resolutions presented by the SBC Resolutions Committee on…

SBC messengers ask for studies of execs’ perks, IMB turmoil

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Taking aim at issues ranging from SBC executives' perks, to Calvinism, from pandemics to what they should call homosexuals, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting presented a flurry of motions. In fact, 29 motions…

Will election of SBC president deal blow to neo-Calvinism?

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — When Southern Baptist Convention messengers elected dark-horse candidate Frank Page of South Carolina as president, they not only sent a populist message to the powerbrokers who backed other candidates, but also — at least in the…

Fish accentuates positive in NAMB report to SBC

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — After a rough spring, the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's domestic missionary agency tried to accentuate the positive in his annual report to the Southern Baptist Convention. Roy Fish, just-named interim president of the…

Baptist historians celebrate lives of public figures at meeting

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The lives of prominent Baptist public figures mighty and mediocre alike took center stage at the annual meeting of the Baptist History and Heritage Society June 1-3 in Washington. The society — for professional Baptist historians and…

Southern Baptist college association changes name, adopts global mission

CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — Members of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools voted June 5 to change the name of the 51-member organization to the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities. The change came after the group…

SBC messengers address IMB dispute, but answers are few, tensions remain

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Although Wade Burleson got no resolution to alleged abuses by trustees of the International Mission Board, he left the Southern Baptist Convention June 13-14 with a dogged sense of optimism that those problems would be resolved…

Corrections

Please make the following corrections to stories in the June 13 release: In “WMU looks for God's call during missions celebration” please correct the spelling of Martha Myers name in the 16th paragraph. It is Myers, not Meyers. In “Messengers…

Condi Rice tells SBC messengers America’s job to spread freedom

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — In an address that was received like a campaign stump speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, exhorting her listeners to support the United States in spreading freedom around…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear