Last year, sacred music composer Christopher Teichler noted a disturbing paradox. The widely observed decline in biblical literacy among American Christians has paralleled a growing interest in developing new and enriched ways of worshipping. Some ministers are saying a bracing…
UPDATED: Baptist New Covenant celebrations continue in Midwest region
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former President Jimmy Carter addressed an estimated 900 persons who gathered in a Kansas City megachurch April 2-3 for the Midwest regional meeting of different Baptist groups. The name and theme for the event was “Border…
For the Bible tells me so
Last year, sacred music composer Christopher Teichler noted a disturbing paradox. The widely observed decline in biblical literacy among American Christians has paralleled a growing interest in developing new and enriched ways of worshipping. Some ministers are saying a bracing…
Baptists open center at site of Jesus’ baptism
AMMAN, Jordan (ABP) — Baptist leaders and other dignitaries — including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — took part in a ceremony March 20 dedicating a new evangelical Christian baptism center at the Jordanian spot traditionally regarded as the…
Police raid Baptist home in Azerbaijan
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist minority in the South Caucasus country of Azerbaijan continues to face run-ins with police. In the latest, reported by the Baptist World Alliance April 2, charged three Baptists with "illegally spreading Christianity and…
Iowa Supreme Court says state cannot deny marriage to gays
DES MOINES, Iowa (ABP) — Iowa will soon join the ranks of states that allow same-sex marriage, thanks to a unanimous April 3 ruling by the state’s highest court. The Iowa Supreme Court said a law limiting marriage to heterosexual…
Baptist church ministers after nursing home shooting
CARTHAGE, N.C. (ABP) — First Baptist Church in Carthage, N.C., designed its fellowship hall to be used in a disaster. But church leaders expected it would be a hurricane or a flood — not a mass shooting at a local…
Baptists open center at site of Jesus’ baptism
AMMAN, Jordan (ABP) — Baptist leaders and other dignitaries — including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — took part in a ceremony March 20 dedicating a new evangelical Christian baptism center at the Jordanian spot traditionally regarded as the…
Songwriter William Reynolds dies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — William Reynolds, author of popular hymns including Share His Love and People to People, died March 28. Reynolds, 88, worked 25 years in the church music department of the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern…