By Bob Allen A high-profile British Baptist minister has stepped forward as the first prominent evangelical in the UK to speak out in support of faithful and monogamous same-sex relationships. Steve Chalke, 57, an ordained Baptist minister who in 1985…
Sunday school worker charged with abuse
By Bob Allen Christopher Ryan Crossno, 22, a former Sunday school teacher at Spring Creek Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tenn., was indicted by the January 2013 Montgomery County Grand Jury on one count of aggravated sexual battery. A press release…
Former minister guilty of abuse
By Bob Allen Brandon James Carter, 34, accepted a plea bargain Jan. 9 that sentenced him to less than two years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old girl. He was arrested last March, while serving as youth and music minister…
Youth speaker to pray at Obama inaugural
By Bob Allen A Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, whose student ministry at Baylor University exploded into the Passion Movement encountering millions of students and young adults, will deliver the benediction at President Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony Jan. 21. The…
Youth speaker to pray at Obama inauguration
By Bob Allen A Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate whose student ministry at Baylor University exploded into the Passion Movement encountering millions of students and young adults will deliver the benediction at President Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony Jan. 21. The…
Gender-role group gets new leader
By Bob Allen The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an organization opposed to women’s ordination and other trends attributed to feminism in the evangelical church, has named a new leader. Owen Strachan, 31, assistant professor of Christian theology and…
Missionary/prof Justice Anderson dies
By Bob Allen Justice Anderson, who often introduced himself as a “sometime Baptist pastor, a longtime Baptist foreign missionary and an even longer-time professor of missiology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas,” died Dec. 29 of a…
Pastor takes leave of absence
By Bob Allen The pastor of a historic progressive Baptist church in North Carolina has taken a 30-day leave of absence for treatment of chronic depression and anxiety. Stephen Shoemaker, senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C.,…
Moderate Baptist leader Henry Crouch dies
By Bob Allen Alliance of Baptists founder William Henry Crouch, 84, died Dec. 29 at his home in Asheville, N.C. Crouch, pastor emeritus of Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., was a member of the “Gatlinburg Gang,” a group convened…