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WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP) – Daniel Akin, academic dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will be recommended as president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary next month, according to a search committee. A special meeting of Southeastern's trustees has been set…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress has adjourned until late January, and several significant church-state issues are left hanging in the legislative balance. The Senate went into recess Dec. 9 after failing to pass an omnibus funding bill for several federal agencies….

DALLAS (ABP) — Veteran Texas Baptist journalist Ken Camp has been named managing editor of the Baptist Standard. Camp, 43, has worked in the Baptist General Convention of Texas news office since 1984. For the past seven years, he has…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Some missions personnel might never have reached the field, while others might be at home now taking early retirement, if not for two large anonymous gifts that the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship received in the past two years….

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — About 150 students, alumni and faculty members of Louisiana College gathered for a candlelight vigil Dec. 10 at the front entrance of the Pineville college to protest the school's new textbook policy. They said they were…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Beginning next summer, Passport Inc. will offer camps for children completing third through sixth grade under a new program called Passport Kids. Developed as a partnership between the Birmingham-based Passport and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the…

DALLAS (ABP) — Treading the ground between competing Baptist conventions is no walk in the park, but it's the path Texas Baptist Men has chosen, according to interim executive director Leo Smith. Texas Baptist Men is a self-governing affiliate of…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (ABP) — Media technology is changing so fast that churches trying to keep up can get exhausted. But at least one church in South Carolina is making an effort to develop a churchwide electronic strategy. Today churches all…

Criswell hires Jerry Johnson from Southern Seminary DALLAS — Jerry Johnson, 39, was elected president of Criswell Center for Biblical Studies Dec. 5. He currently is dean of the Boyce College, the undergraduate college of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Johnson…

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — In a move that already has generated considerable outcry, Louisiana College trustees will now require college administrators to approve textbooks for classes at the Baptist school. Previously the selection of textbooks and other classroom materials was…

WATERTOWN, Wis. (ABP) — Carl F. H. Henry, famed evangelical theologian and first editor of Christianity Today, died Dec. 7 in Watertown, Wis., following a lengthy illness. He was 90 years old. Henry's contributions to evangelical Christianity were great and…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Dec. 5 Baptist Press story on a new clergy political group has earned a strong rebuke from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and others. The story concerned the Clergy Leadership Network, an organization formed in November by…