By John Loudat Around 30 people from New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma gathered April 12 at Baptist Convention of New Mexico’s building to offer suggestions for the future of Glorieta Conference Center. They met at invitation of an ad hoc…
‘Baptist Times’ website debuts
Associated Baptist Press A new Baptist Times website launched April 23, three months after an award-winning newspaper with the same name ceased publication after 156 years. Part of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the new website will cover news…
Ethnicity thwarts unity: BWA head
By Marv Knox Ethnicity – not race – thwarts Christian unity, Baptists’ international leader told participants at the T.B. Maston Lectures in Christian Ethics. Neville Callam, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, delivered the 12th annual Maston Lectures April…
Pastor says SBC should repudiate and/or replace Richard Land
An influential black pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention should repudiate remarks about race by the head of its ethics commission, and if Richard Land does not repent he should be fired. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in…
CBF council reviewing revised 2012 Task Force report
By Bob Allen A two-year study charting the future for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is now in the hands of the group’s Coordinating Council, which votes May 1 on the final report in time for it to be published and…
Alliance takes aim at gun deaths
By Bob Allen The Alliance of Baptists adopted a statement of support April 14 for the family of Trayvon Martin and others who have experienced similar losses. Citing an article from the Alliance covenant affirming “the calling of God to…
Georgia Baptists rescind grant to women’s health clinic
By Bob Allen The Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation withdrew a $42,000 grant from a women’s health clinic after learning that it dispenses morning-after birth control pills. According to the Rome News-Tribune, the grant was for cervical cancer screening…
BTSR to offer M.Div. concentration in justice, peace
By Robert Dilday A concentration in justice and peacebuilding will be available to master of divinity degree students at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmondbeginning this fall, in a collaborative effort a seminary spokesman said would help the school “live out”…
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