By Jeff Brumley The Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced today they will host a major disaster-recovery campaign in August for tornado-battered Oklahomans. “Loving Oklahoma” will be held Aug. 5-10 in five areas in the…
Missions comes full circle for ABC
By Bob Allen Two hundred years after the first American Baptist missionaries arrived in Burma, American Baptist Churches USA and the Myanmar Baptist Convention look forward to a new chapter of cooperation and collaboration in an altered missionary landscape. Yam…
FBC West receives Baylor donation
By Jeff Brumley First Baptist Church of West, Texas, will receive nearly $300,000 from a Baylor University fund established after the fertilizer plant explosion that partially flattened the city in April. The money from the Baylor West Relief Fund will…
Glorieta leaseholders express concerns
By Ken Camp and John Loudat Leaseholders at Glorieta Conference Center left a July 9 meeting with the property’s new owners hopeful they will be offered better options for their interests at the 61-year-old Baptist camp in New Mexico. The…
Mission trip provides religious liberty lesson
By Bob Allen Less than a month after police in the former Soviet state of Georgia intervened to rescue peaceful gay-rights protestors from a religious mob, Baptist young adults from the United States stood alongside Georgian Baptists to speak up…
Mission trip provides religious liberty lesson
By Bob Allen OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (ABP)—Less than a month after police in the former Soviet state of Georgia intervened to rescue peaceful gay-rights protestors from a religious mob, Baptist young adults from the United States stood alongside Georgian Baptists…
Missions comes full circle for American Baptists
By Bob Allen OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (ABP)—Two hundred years after the first American Baptist missionaries arrived in Burma, American Baptist Churches USA and the Myanmar Baptist Convention look forward to a new chapter of cooperation and collaboration in an altered…
Mo. Baptists dispute Web report
By Bob Allen Leaders of the Missouri Baptist Convention disputed a moderate Baptist website’s report that the convention quietly settled a lawsuit last year and did not disclose it to messengers at the state convention’s annual meeting that fall. EthicsDaily.com,…
What’s next for CBF chaplaincy?
By Jeff Brumley Jim Pope will become interim chaplaincy and pastoral counseling endorser for CBF when George Pickle steps down from that position on June 30. What he will not become – ever – is a candidate for the Pickle’s…