DALLAS (ABP) – The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted Sept. 27 to recommend a budget that reduces funding for Baylor University while giving more dollars to 10 other schools. The spending plan, to be recommended to messengers…
CBF young leader network sponsoring Kentucky retreat
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) – Current, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s young leaders’ network, is sponsoring three regional meetings as a way to reach out to a new crop of young seminarians and those in their first call as clergy. The first…
Leland Center relocates
ARLINGTON, Va. — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies moved at the end of August to new quarters in the busy Clarendon section of Arlington, Va., about three miles from central Washington, D.C. The Church at Clarendon's new 10-story…
After 20 years, BTSR celebrates its past, looks toward the future
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will celebrate the 20th anniversary of inaugural classes that first met in the fall of 1991 with a celebration dinner Oct. 17 at First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. A highlight…
CBFMO offers incentive for churches to consider women as pastors
COLUMBIA, Mo. (ABP) – A state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is offering cash incentives for churches searching for a pastor to consider a female candidate as part of the process. The CBF of Missouri offered Sept. 17 to pay interview, travel…
Baptist university contributes to Pujols Foundation as partner
ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Missouri Baptist University recently contributed $9,000 to the Pujols Family Foundation as the first gift in a partnership the university plans to continue. Missouri Baptist University President Alton Lacey (second, left) gives St. Louis Cardinals First…
Alabama Baptists remain on sidelines of immigration debate
GUNTERVILLE, Ala. (ABP) – An Alabama Baptist Convention spokesman explained why Baptist churches aren’t joining Methodists, Episcopalians, Catholics and others in protesting the state’s anti-illegal immigration law. “I don’t have the right to speak for the Baptists, because they haven’t…
Jameson joins Wake Forest advancement staff
Norman Jameson WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Norman Jameson, a veteran Baptist journalist whose bylines have appeared recently in Associated Baptist Press, has joined the advancement staff at Wake Forest University. Jameson, 58, serves as assistant dean for development for the WFU…
SBC leader says gay marriage not ‘live and let live’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – A Southern Baptist leader warned Sept. 24 that gay marriage is not a matter of “live and let live” but rather part of a “radical homosexual agenda” aimed at destroying the institution of marriage. “The big…