By Jeff Brumley The calls to action and prayer seem to be spreading as fast as the Ebola virus currently ravaging parts of Africa — with Baptists and other Christians squarely in the sights of the terrifying disease and the effort…
Golden Gate campus fetches $85 million
By Bob Allen A picturesque 126-acre Southern Baptist seminary campus with sweeping views of San Francisco Bay brought $85 million in a sale finalized last week. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary plans to use sale proceeds to relocate its main…
Once a bright hope, Arkansas Baptist College now faces fiscal challenges, lawsuits
By Bob Allen A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leader in Arkansas says he continues to support the president of a historically black college struggling with finances and a close ministry partner to the state CBF chapter the last seven years. Recent…
McAfee trip expands limits of faith, culture and ministry
By Jeff Brumley Walking through ritually sacrificed goat’s blood at a Hindu temple and watching Buddhist monks meditate for hours on end didn’t shake Baptist Rebecca White’s faith one bit during a three-week trip to India. It was just the…
American Baptist leader asks churches to address growing global conflict
By Robert Dilday The general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA is calling on each of the denomination’s 5,200 congregations to offer prayers each Sunday in August for nations impacted by the “continued escalation of conflict” around the globe this…
Kentucky Baptist Convention escrows funds for Campbellsville
By Bob Allen Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders voted July 17 to hold in escrow Cooperative Program funds earmarked for Campbellsville University after the school changed bylaws to elect its own trustees. Don Mathis, chairman of the convention’s business and finance…
Campbellsville coaches share expertise, gospel on mission trip
By Jeff Brumley A group of Campbellsville University coaches are stepping off the sidelines and onto the frontlines of evangelism during a seven-day mission trip to Costa Rica, leaders of the Baptist school has announced. The 32-member team’s trip is…
How you can help: Baptists in Texas seek funds, volunteers to aid immigrants
By Ken Camp Texas Baptists are collecting funds for Spanish-language Bibles, Buckner International is seeking children’s shoes, and Baptists in South Texas are gathering emergency items and soliciting volunteer nurses to help minister to unaccompanied minors and mothers with young…
Campbellsville seeks new relationship with Kentucky Baptists
By Bob Allen Campbellsville University has proposed renegotiating its affiliation with the Kentucky Baptist Convention to phase out nearly $1 million a year in cooperative funding in exchange for more flexibility in trustee appointments and academic freedom. Trustees of the…
Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders, Campbellsville University trustees clash
By Bob Allen Eight months after ending ties with Georgetown College, the Kentucky Baptist Convention warned trustees of Campbellsville University that a governance change reportedly up for a vote this week could jeopardize their school’s relationship to the state affiliate…
South African tapped to lead Baptist World Alliance
By Jeff Brumley American John Upton has been succeeded by South African Ngwedla Paul Msiza to lead the Baptist World Alliance. Msiza, 53, is only the second African ever elected to the BWA presidency. The first was Liberian William Tolbert,…
BWA resolution calls surge of child immigrants a ‘humanitarian crisis’
By Ken Camp The surge of unaccompanied children from Central America into the United States “is not primarily an issue of unprotected borders but a humanitarian crisis,” according to a resolution the Baptist World Alliance General Council approved in Izmir,…