The final report of a blue-ribbon task force appointed two years ago to chart a future for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is now available online, giving Fellowship Baptists a month to digest the 24-page document before it comes to a vote June 21 at the 2102 General Assembly in Fort […]
Daily Archives: May 17, 2012
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A Baptist divinity school dean eulogized former Watergate henchman and Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson as a man who was not perfect but forgiven and who never forgot Jesus’ words, “I was in prison and you visited me.”
Two churches — one with 80 members, the other with 1,100 — begin their work through Southern Baptists’ Embrace initiative to reach one of the world’s 3,800 unreached, unengaged people groups, 500 of which can be found in Europe, and establish an active church-planting strategy among them.
Chen Guangcheng, who remains under virtual house arrest in a Beijing hospital, told reporters he expects to receive passports for his family in less than two weeks so that they may travel to the United States.
North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell has announced new missionary placements for five several states in the Northeast — Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, South New Jersey and Vermont — that have not had a full-time missionary fully funded by NAMB. During a meeting of NAMB trustees, Ezell also underscored […]
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary graduated its largest class in history, issuing certificates and diplomas to 389. Seminary President Chuck Kelley emphasized the school’s tenacity and God’s faithfulness, encouraging students in ministry
As the Supreme Court has ruled, obscene pornographic material is not protected by the First Amendment. Yet at the behest of the current administration, federal prosecutors — whose job it is to help quarantine the infectious and illegal porn pandemic from spreading — are turning a blind eye to its […]