The Baptist News Global Team Natalie Aho | Bob Allen | Lindsay Bergstrom | Jeff Brumley Robert Dilday | Barbara Francis | Ann Richardson | David Wilkinson
Merry Christmas
Wishing you all the blessings of Adventand the joy of Christmas The Baptist News Global Team Ann Richardson Barbara Francis Bob Allen David Wilkinson Jeff Brumley Lindsay Bergstrom Natalie Aho …
Triple-murder suspect now eligible for death penalty
By Bob Allen A grand jury in Manatee County, Fla., has indicted 33-year-old Andres “Andy” Avalos Jr. on three counts of first-degree murder for the killing of his wife, a Southern Baptist pastor and a third person in a violent spree…
SBC president calls for racial healing
By Bob Allen Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd urged members of America’s second-largest faith group behind Roman Catholics to reaffirm their opposition to racism and injustice in a Dec. 15 statement endorsed by ethnic leaders. “Southern Baptists have always…
Former SBC leader says race a rift in America’s social fabric
By Bob Allen The former ethics spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention says visceral reaction to decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., not to indict police officers in the deaths of two unarmed African-American males…
For Baptists, a lone Arminian voice crying in a Calvinist wilderness
By Jeff Brumley Roger Olson is one of the few voices in American evangelicalism, and among Baptists, who regularly speaks out against the increasingly popular Calvinist movement. “I guess I do feel a bit lonely,” said Olson, a professor of…
Former missionary, professor Malcolm Tolbert dies
By Bob Allen A memorial service is scheduled Dec. 13 in Baton Rouge, La., for Malcolm Tolbert, a former missionary to Brazil who taught at two Southern Baptist Convention seminaries and died Thanksgiving Day at age 90. Tolbert, a native…
Struggles prepared her for ministry, says pastor of Hispanic congregation
By Jeff Brumley By all accounts, nothing rattles Alina Carbonell. She has survived communism in Cuba, the leukemia death of a beloved sister, an abusive marriage and a nasty divorce. Throw in a near-bankruptcy while raising two boys on her…
Triple-murder suspect captured as Baptist church mourns
By Bob Allen An estimated 350 people attended worship Dec. 7 at Bayshore Baptist Church in Bradenton, Fla., to pay respects to 31-year-old Pastor Tripp Battle, who died at the church Dec. 4 in what police believe is a triple…