By Bob Allen A Missouri Baptist University employee has been charged with embezzling about $107,000 since being promoted to the university controller’s position in 2009. St. Louis County prosecutors charged 48-year-old Melinda Okai of O’Fallon, Mo., with theft of more…
Baptists respond to Congo crisis
By Bob Allen Baptists in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo appealed to the global Baptist community for help in responding to a humanitarian catastrophe caused by fighting between government and rebel forces in the…
Virginia seminary names dean
By Robert Dilday A veteran professor and administrator at a community college in Texas has been elected dean of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Timothy Gilbert, a professor of philosophy at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, for nearly…
Virginia seminary names dean
By Robert Dilday A veteran professor and administrator at a community college in Texas has been elected dean of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Timothy Gilbert, a professor of philosophy at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, for nearly…
Baptists write Obama about Burma
By Bob Allen American Baptist leaders wrote President Obama Nov. 12, voicing human-rights concerns in advance of his scheduled Nov. 19 visit to Myanmar. The Board of General Ministries of American Baptist Churches USA voted Nov. 10 to authorize ABC/USA…
Ministry: Abuse suit harms confidentiality
By Bob Allen A network of Reformed church plants accused in a class-action lawsuit of covering up sexual abuse of children appealed to a First Amendment defense in a statement Nov. 14. Sovereign Grace Ministries, which recently relocated from Maryland…
British Baptists downsizing
By Bob Allen The Baptist Union of Great Britain will downsize its national staff from 46 to 32 employees and change the way it works with associations and Baptist colleges to better serve local churches in the 21st century. Changes approved…
BGAV upholds church ouster
By Robert Dilday The Baptist General Association of Virginia has upheld a leadership committee’s decision to end the state association’s affiliation with a church that ordained an openly gay man to the ministry earlier this fall. In the opening session…
Ky. Baptists delay cutting Georgetown ties
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s mission board voted unanimously and without discussion Nov. 12 to approve an administrative committee recommendation to postpone a vote on the convention’s future with Georgetown College by one year. A motion to terminate…
Ky. Baptists delay cutting Georgetown ties
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s mission board voted unanimously and without discussion Nov. 12 to approve an administrative committee recommendation to postpone a vote on the convention’s future with Georgetown College by one year. A motion to terminate…
Ky. Baptists delay cutting Georgetown ties
By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s mission board voted unanimously and without discussion Nov. 12 to approve an administrative committee recommendation to postpone by one year a vote on the convention’s future with Georgetown College. A motion to terminate…
McAfee to offer Ph.D.
By Bob Allen Mercer University trustees approved McAfee School of Theology’s first doctor of philosophy degree program during their semi-annual board meeting Nov. 8 in Macon, Ga. The Ph.D. in religion with a focus on Baptist studies will be interdepartmental,…