GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — Officials of Georgetown College and the Kentucky Baptist Convention are proposing a new working relationship that would allow the college to have a self-perpetuating board of trustees while maintaining historic ties between the two organizations. The…
Coordinating Council votes to add ‘Jesus’ language to CBF constitution
ATLANTA (ABP) — National leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship voted Oct. 14 to restore explicit references to Jesus deleted from the group's constitution in July. A preamble to the constitution was approved by the CBF Coordinating Council with little…
New stem-cell procedures could quell fears — or create new ones
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Scientists have successfully tested two new methods designed to achieve the same ends as embryonic stem-cell research while avoiding the ethical controversy over the destruction of embryos. The two methods are detailed in articles published Oct. 16…
Questionnaire reveals Miers’ support for anti-abortion law in 1989
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Documents made public Oct. 18 reveal that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported a constitutional amendment in 1989 that would ban most abortions. The revelation is almost certain to make her already troubled confirmation much more difficult….
American Baptists cutting staff, but ‘not collapsing,’ says Medley
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — The American Baptist Churches USA is shutting down its communications department — the latest step in budget cuts and restructuring brought on by declining funds and theological division in the denominational group. Although the ABC…
As disasters keep coming, relief groups respond in Pakistan, Guatemala
(ABP) — Rescue specialists from Hungarian Baptist Aid have joined the recovery effort in Pakistan, where the country's worst earthquake ever killed an estimated 41,000 people Oct. 8. Other Baptist organizations — including the Baptist World Alliance, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…
Bible curriculum looks at poverty, racism in Katrina’s aftermath
ATLANTA (ABP) — A five-lesson Bible study course, published by two Baptist groups, is intended to help churches focus on poverty and racial issues that surfaced in the rubble of Hurricane Katrina. “Lessons on Poverty and Racism,” scheduled for release…
Kenyan, American students hold second joint Passport youth camp
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Alex Lowman, 15, didn't know if she would have anything in common with youth from Kenya. But a weeklong Passport youth camp just outside of Nairobi, Kenya, showed her the world is a smaller place than…
New trustees named for Shorter as long legal battle ends
ROME, Ga. (ABP) — Nelson Price, a leading conservative among Baptists in Georgia and the Southern Baptist Convention, was named acting trustee chair at Shorter College following a long legal battle that ended with the Georgia Baptist Convention retaining complete…