After 10 years as editor of the Western Recorder, Todd Deaton is leaving the official news journal of the Kentucky Baptist Convention March 1.
North Carolina Baptist newspaper editor to retire in 2019
Allan Blume, editor and president of the Biblical Recorder, has announced plans to retire at the end of next May. Blume, 68, took over in 2011 as editor of the official news journal of the Baptist State Convention of North…
Proposed ‘bathroom bill’ raises Baptist ire in N.C.
By Bob Allen Baptists in North Carolina are among religious voices opposing a pending non-discrimination measure in Charlotte, N.C., marked by debate over where transgender persons can go to the bathroom. The Biblical Recorder, news journal for the Baptist State…
Gene Puckett, my father, and the best member of our family!
In 1978, Gene Puckett was the major speaker at the retirement dinner for my father, G. W. Bullard, as executive director-treasurer of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey. He and dad had gotten to know one another in 1966 when…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime work
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors veteran Baptist journalist
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press will honor veteran Baptist journalist Toby Druin with a lifetime achievement award at a banquet June 21 in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 20-23 in Fort Worth, Texas. Druin, 77,…
OPINION: Executive Committee treats new boss shoddily
ORLANDO, Fla. — Frank Page was elected president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee during a bizarre and shoddy exercise June 14 in Orlando. Page is currently vice president for evangelism of the North American Mission Board and is…
Leaders urge B21 group to stay in the SBC hall, support task force
ORLANDO, Fla. — Supporters of the Great Commission Resurgence task force took a final opportunity to garner votes for their report when they encouraged 1,300 primarily younger pastors attending the B21 conference Tuesday to leave the luncheon and become fixtures…
Messengers embrace report, focus on Great Commission
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention embraced a future uncertain but focused on the Great Commission when a solid majority of messengers adopted the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force June 15. “We are a Great Commission…
Vestal confident in future as CBF emerges from its adolescence
MARION, N.C. (ABP) — With the death of founding coordinator Cecil Sherman and the approaching 20th anniversary of its birth, the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is reaching a point where its viability into the future will either be cemented or…