By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship departed briefly from its official agenda in Friday morning’s business session to voice prayer for a former moderator facing surgery. CBF Moderator Keith Herron, senior pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City,…
CBF lauds ‘chaplain’s pastor’ George Pickle
By Jeff Brumley George Pickle was sent off by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship chaplains and pastoral counselors Thursday with a stack of plaques, two hours of laughter and more important reminders that he will always be their friend and spiritual leader….
Church musician Don Hustad dies
By Bob Allen Don Hustad, 94, a leader in evangelical church music who taught for decades at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died June 22. Hustad, once full-time organist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, served on the faculty of Southern…
Caner sues to purge video from Web
By Bob Allen The former head of Liberty University’s seminary, demoted in 2010 after publicity over a “Jihad to Jesus” testimony that he used with evangelical audiences after 9/11, has sued two bloggers for posting video of him making claims…
In West, helpers become the helped
By Jeff Brumley It’s hard being helped when you’re used to being the helper. Just ask the folks at First Baptist Church in West, Texas. Church member Presley Landrum, 16, said she and her youth group friends are accustomed to…
Texas mission worker dead at 32
By Ken Camp Seth Dorrell, 32-year-old director of Mission Waco’s global arm — Mission World — died of a heart attack June 16 while he was serving on a mission trip in Mexico with his family. Dorrell’s heart attack was…
Internet video scrubbing alleged
By Bob Allen A Christian blogger has reportedly filed an ethics complaint against a lawyer for claiming ownership of online video he says was obtained legally from the federal government. Jason Smathers, who began the Witnesses Unto Me blog in…
Moderates among Baptists ‘Loving West’
By Jeff Brumley If faith has led hundreds of volunteers from around the state to descend on West, Texas, for 13-year-old Emily Dodson it was that and something more personal. “I know people who lost friends, dads,” said Dodson, a…
Accused Mo. pastor faces new charges
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist pastor in Missouri awaiting trial for alleged sex crimes now faces additional charges filed June 10. Local media report that the Moniteau County prosecutor filed new charges of statutory rape and statutory sodomy against…