By Bob Allen The president of a Baptist child care agency has resigned after a no-confidence vote in November by the Kentucky Baptist Convention for recommending that Sunrise Children’s Services drop its ban on hiring gays. No formal announcement was…
KBC votes to end Georgetown ties
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention voted Nov. 12 to sever ties with Georgetown College, a historically Baptist liberal-arts school chartered in 1829. The motion to terminate a partnership agreement between the entities struck in 2005 was scheduled for…
Ky. Baptists vote no-confidence in leader
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention passed a symbolic vote of no-confidence in an agency head who recently asked his board to consider dropping a policy against hiring gays. Messengers at the 2013 KBC annual meeting Nov. 12 in…
Kentucky Baptist agency won’t hire gays
By Bob Allen The board of directors of a Kentucky Baptist child care agency voted Nov. 8 against a proposal to drop its ban on hiring gays. “Let us be clear about this vote,” said Joyce Smith, board chair of…
Baptist home considers hiring gays
This story was edited after posting to correct an error in the third paragraph from last. By Bob Allen After a dozen years defending lawsuits stemming from the firing of a lesbian worker in 1998, a Kentucky Baptist child care…
Baptists support discrimination ban
By Bob Allen Baptist preachers opposing a ban on discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation in Frankfort, Ky., don’t speak for all members of the Baptist faith, moderate and progressive ministers contended in an op-ed…
Georgetown College names new president
By Bob Allen Trustees of the first Baptist college established west of the Allegheny Mountains announced Monday the election of M. Dwaine Greene as 24th president of Georgetown College. Greene, 56, has been academic vice president and provost since 2001…
Georgetown still seeking president
By Bob Allen Georgetown College’s search for a new president will continue after two of three previously announced finalists withdrew from further consideration. College officials said May 9 that former Lexington, Ky., Mayor Jim Newberry and Jason Rogers of Belmont…
KBC affirms Campbellsville University
By Bob Allen Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders said they came away satisfied after a three-hour meeting to investigate reports that Campbellsville University is getting rid of a Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-trained professor for being too conservative. State convention and university…