By Jeff Brumley Baptist disaster relief agencies are pressing hard to determine what, if anything, they can to do aid the immigrant children flooding into the nation along the southern border by the tens of thousands. While some help has…
With Florida camp, Passport returns to its birthplace
By Jeff Brumley United Community Outreach Ministry is a small nonprofit that makes a huge impact with clothing, food and other services across a swath of struggling, urban neighborhoods in Jacksonville, Fla. And that was before hundreds of youth campers…
Bluefield College suspends dental school project until funding is secured
By Robert Dilday Bluefield College has suspended plans for a new dental school due to uncertain funding, college officials have announced. The suspension follows a decision by Tazewell County, which was partnering with Bluefield in the public-private project, to end…
Election of new president tops BWA gathering’s agenda
By Eron Henry More than 300 Baptist leaders from around the world will gather in Izmir, Turkey, July 6-12 for the Baptist World Alliance’s Annual Gathering. The event will include meetings of the BWA’s governing General Council and its executive…
SACS commission releases statement on Brewton-Parker accreditation woes
By Bob Allen The board of trustees of a regional accrediting body for degree-granting higher education institutions in the South voted June 19 to remove the accreditation of Brewton-Parker College for failure to comply with membership standards. Those standards related…
Judge dismisses Sovereign Grace appeal
By Bob Allen Eleven plaintiffs seeking a day in court to prove that leaders of an evangelical church-planting network conspired to cover up sexual abuse of children were dealt a blow June 26, when a Maryland Court of Special Appeals…
Seminary cuts ties with embattled SGM
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist Convention seminary has broken off its formal relationship with a church-starting network that has become a lightning rod since a former leader admitted under oath that he failed to report child sex abuse to…
Judge OKs settlement of Baptist home lawsuit
By Bob Allen A federal judge ruled June 30 that a Kentucky Baptist ministry cannot prevent settlement of a long-running legal battle over the establishment of religion simply because it has benefitted from state contracts in the past. U.S. District…
Black Baptist group elects president
By Bob Allen A Louisiana pastor was elected the 15th president of the National Baptist Convention of America, International, Inc., at the group’s June 23-27 annual meeting in Memphis, Tenn. Samuel Tolbert, pastor of the Greater St. Mary Missionary Baptist…