CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Campbellsville University's School of Theology has named interim dean John Hurtgen to the permanent dean's position. Hurtgen, who has served the university since 1990 as an instructor of Christian studies and more recently as director of…
Wake Forest president plans retirement next year
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Wake Forest University President Thomas Hearn Jr. announced April 19 that he will retire next year. Hearn, 66, who took several months off to recuperate from surgery and treatment for a brain tumor, said he is…
Louisiana College trustees re-affirm textbook policy
PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of a Louisiana Baptist school re-affirmed a controversial textbook policy April 19 and named one of their own as an interim president. In a special called meeting, Louisiana College trustees passed a resolution that they…
New Orleans Seminary trustees ask messengers to resolve dispute
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary trustees will leave up to Southern Baptist Convention messengers a final decision on how best to tie the institution to the denominational body — but in the process may have only…
Judge issues mixed decision on Oregon same-sex marriages
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Both sides of the gay-marriage debate found something to cheer in an Oregon judge's April 20 decision to put a halt to the same-sex marriages that one county in the state had been performing. Multnomah County Circuit…
First Amendment scholar, church to be honored with 2004 ABP awards
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A First Amendment scholar and a Mississippi church will be honored for their commitment to religious liberty when they receive awards from Associated Baptist Press April 30. Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the Freedom Forum's Arlington, Va.-based…
Instability is greatest threat to inner-city ministry
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill .(ABP) – In an inner-city ministry in the shadow of St. Louis, seventh-grader Brandon Smith writes a homemade card for Mother's Day. Writing on a folded sheet of paper, he thanks his mom for teaching him…
ABP writers claim several awards from Baptist communications society
ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press writers received several awards — including a prestigious best-in-category honor — as part of a professional organization's annual awards competition. The Baptist Communicators Association honored winners in their annual Wilmer C. Fields Awards…
Texans gearing up to fight new level of gambling
MT. LEBANON, Texas (ABP) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to introduce a new level of gambling in the state, and a Baptist legislative expert says it is opening the door to casino-type gaming. The governor's school finance proposal includes…