By Jeff Brumley Baptists with a combined hankering for travel and hard work are in luck as denominational disaster recovery organizations are beginning to issue their calls for help this spring and summer. American Baptist Churches USA has posted three…
Louisiana College to seek new president
By Bob Allen Rather than losing his job or getting a contract extension, an embattled Baptist college president in Louisiana will return to the classroom with an honorary title and trustees will search for a new president to replace him….
In Haiti, response to earthquake becomes a mission game-changer
By Jeff Brumley Like thousands of other faith-based groups, Virginia Baptists responded in big ways to the 2010 earthquake that ravaged Haiti. The $1 million they quickly raised was turned into aid that Baptists used to meet an array of…
Get outside the walls, Virginia leader tells churches
By Paige Peak Congregations affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia must move beyond their walls to be a fresh expression of church in their communities, members of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board were told April 8-9. “Millions upon…
Mission service is key focus of Tennessee CBF meeting
By Dan Lattimore Mission service topped the agenda of the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship as more than 220 participants at the annual meeting in Memphis April 11-12 engaged in 14 projects across the city. Enfleshing the meeting’s theme — “Be,…
Golden Gate seminary selling campus, moving
By Bob Allen Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary is selling its 126-acre campus with sweeping views of San Francisco Bay for an undisclosed price, the seminary’s president told faculty, staff and students April 1. President Jeff Iorg said the school,…
On 20th anniversary, CBFNC adopts vision statement to navigate future
By Robert Dilday A vision statement adopted March 29 by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina offers a new “way of seeing” the group’s future, say CBFNC leaders. Two years in the making, the statement proposed by a 13-member…
Missouri Baptists lose Windermere appeal
By Bob Allen The Missouri Baptist Convention’s 12-year-old legal battle with a breakaway entity may have ended, not with a bang but a whimper. On March 25 the Missouri Court of Appeals denied a jury trial to determine legal ownership…
World Vision’s policy reversal turns tables in same-sex marriage debate
By Bob Allen As bloggers both left and right shut down comments because of heated arguments about World Vision’s recently announced decision to hire gays, the tables turned suddenly March 26 when the parachurch charity publicly reversed the policy and…
Mid-Atlantic CBF partners with Washington-area seminary
By Robert Dilday Launching a new partnership with a Washington-area seminary topped the agenda of the Mid-Atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship March 23 as it gathered for its annual meeting in suburban Maryland. The 50-church regional affiliate of the national CBF…
Petition asks gender-role group to repent
By Bob Allen An online petition posted recently at Change.org challenges the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to apologize for what the sponsors say is the misuse of Scripture to keep women in their place. “At a time in…
Director of gender-roles council denies scrubbing article
By Bob Allen The head of an organization that advocates wifely submission in the church and home denies removing a web page containing an article being compared to Mormonism. Julie Ann Smith, who writes for a blog on spiritual abuse…