By Bob Allen Ben McDade, coordinator of Fellowship advancement, is stepping down July 31 after 10 years of heading the Atlanta-based CBF’s communications, marketing and development efforts to become executive vice president for Baptists Today. His departure comes on the…
BWA formally hires leaders
By Bob Allen The Baptist World Alliance formalized appointments of two executive staff members July 6 during leadership meetings in Santiago, Chile. Rothangliani Rema Chhangte, originally from India but who worked most recently for American Baptist Churches USA, begins Aug….
NABF plans 2014 anniversary
By Bob Allen North Americans attending the July 2-7 Baptist World Alliance annual gathering in Santiago, Chile, convened Thursday afternoon to preview plans for the 50th anniversary celebration of the North American Baptist Fellowship in 2014. The March 6-7, 2014,…
Baptist leaders meet in Chile
By Bob Allen About 300 Baptist leaders from around the world are in Santiago, Chile, this week for an annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. In an opening celebration service July 2, BWA President John Upton recalled worldwide Baptist…
BTSR goes ‘boothless’ in Fort Worth
By Bob Allen Alumni of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond searched in vain this year for a booth in the exhibit hall at last week’s Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, but their alma mater was far…
Trial for alleged peeping preacher delayed
By Bob Allen A criminal trial scheduled June 25 for a former traveling Southern Baptist evangelist and popular youth speaker charged with video voyeurism has been postponed until July 30, according to a court document obtained recently by Associated Baptist…
Jesse Jackson welcomes Luter’s election
By Bob Allen African-American activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson called the election of the Southern Baptist Convention’s first black president a “step in the right direction” and “a victory for the Civil Rights Movement,” but said it is too…
Vestal focuses on God in final sermon
By Jeff Brumley There were plenty of big developments for Daniel Vestal to address in his final sermon at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 22, including approval of the 2012 Task Force report, the issue of “letters of…
CBF enters year of transition
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looks forward to an “in-between year” characterized by implementation of a new identity statement and a search for a successor to retiring CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, the group’s incoming moderator said June….
ABP honors Druin for lifetime work
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…