Christian churches have a responsibility to work for a lasting peace in the Middle East and advocate for a two-state solution to chronic conflict in the Holy Land, 40 church leaders from various traditions agreed during an April 19-20 summit…
Covenant of action inspires churches to social justice
Two very different Dallas churches inspired by callings for social justice are surmounting racial and geographical differences to minister to their city’s poor. Friendship-West Baptist and Wilshire Baptist churches came together formally in 2014 with a covenant of action through…
Advocates seek systemic change in prison justice issues
For the past 15 years, Alan Bean has found himself involved in some of the biggest criminal justice controversies in Texas and Louisiana. In 1999, the mild-mannered Baptist minister founded Friends of Justice and assumed the role of prophet and…
Confused by issues in the 2016 presidential campaign?
This year’s presidential campaign has taken some of the strangest twists in U.S. history. Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, suggests nine books that can help clear things up.
Jimmy Carter says he is cancer free
By Bob Allen Former President Jimmy Carter announced Dec. 6 that he is cancer-free, four months after revealing that cancer removed from his liver had spread to four spots on his brain. Carter, 91, a lifelong Baptist who identifies with…
No slowing down: Jimmy Carter celebrates 91st birthday
By Bob Allen Former President Jimmy Carter turns a youthful 91 today, with plans for a private birthday celebration in Americus, Ga. The Carter Center joined the celebration by discounting the regular $8 adult admission to the Jimmy Carter Presidential…
Jimmy Carter’s church to limit Sunday crowds
By Bob Allen Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., announced Aug. 27 it would begin limiting the size of crowds attending a Sunday school class taught by former President Jimmy Carter. Last Sunday Carter, 90, for the first time pulled…
Jimmy Carter: Faith as verb
By Bill Leonard Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. Jimmy Carter has built Habitat for Humanity dwellings for 33 years. Jimmy Carter led the Carter Center in eradicating much of the Guinea worm plague in West Africa. Jimmy…
American Baptists join Baptist family in prayer for Jimmy Carter
By Bob Allen Leaders of American Baptist Churches USA joined the larger Baptist family Aug. 25 in the United States and globally in prayer for former President Jimmy Carter and his family after the lifelong Baptist’s recent diagnosis with cancer….