By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board will offer voluntary incentive for early retirement in an attempt to cut between 600 and 800 jobs from the agency’s missionary force and staff. Leaders of the Richmond, Va.,-based IMB…
Opening doors — front and back — to minister
By Blake Tommey At the Center for Faith and Leadership in Fredericksburg, Va., directors Carey and Gannon Sims have a familiar saying: “Our front door is open to the campus and our back door opens to the community.” And while…
Baylor launches investigation of student-athlete’s sexual assault
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By Ken Camp Baylor University President Ken Starr called for a “comprehensive internal inquiry” into circumstances surrounding former football player Sam Ukwuachu’s sexual assault of an 18-year-old female student-athlete, including the conduct of the various campus offices involved. Ukwuachu, a…
Global Women wins Best of Pelham Award
By Bob Allen An ecumenical woman-to-woman missions organization with Baptist ties dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable women around the world has been honored as one of its local community’s best businesses. Global Women’s international partnerships in areas including…
Churches integral to healing communities marred by violence, commission says
By Brian Kaylor On Aug. 9, 2014, the city of Ferguson, Mo., moved from being a little-known St. Louis suburb to an international headline. Media outlets, politicians and activists from around the nation descended on the community following police officer…
Annual Lott Carey gathering tackles police-community relations
By Jeff Brumley More than 5,000 attended the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention 118th Annual Session in Greensboro, N.C., last week. The gathering included worship, service opportunities in the surrounding community and a discussion of community-law enforcement relations. A…
Federal grant will help Mercer University serve disadvantaged students
By Jeff Brumley Mercer University has received a $1.1 million federal grant to improve the retention, gradate and financial literacy of non-traditional students. The university reported this week that the U.S. Department of Education Student Support Services awarded the funds,…
Union University quits CCCU over homosexuality
By Bob Allen Baptist-affiliated Union University announced Aug. 13 it is withdrawing from an association of Christian schools after two member institutions changed policies to permit the hiring of faculty members who are in same-sex marriages. The Tennessee Baptist Convention-affiliated…
Baptist protestors arrested in St. Louis
By Bob Allen Four of the 57 people arrested Aug. 10 in a peaceful protest outside a federal courthouse in St. Louis were part of an eight-member Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America delegation in Ferguson, Mo., there to observe…