by Bob Allen | Jun 29, 2007 | News
Keeping God’s covenant requires doing more than just preaching the gospel, but also helping the needy and challenging injustice, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Moderator Emmanuel McCall said in a Thursday address. McCall, founding pastor of The Fellowship Group...
by Bob Allen | Jun 28, 2007 | News
Belmont University’s School of Religion is partnering with the Baptist Center Ethics to write Bible commentary for “The Agenda: 8 Lessons from Luke 4,” a free, online study to help prepare churches for next year’s New Baptist Covenant...
by Bob Allen | Jun 27, 2007 | News
This week in Washington, Emmanuel McCall will become the first African-American to preside over the General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Being first is nothing new for McCall, 71, a pioneer in black-church relations among Baptists in the South, but...
by Bob Allen | Jun 27, 2007 | News
The anti-poverty coalition Micah Challenge has called on Britain’s new prime minister to take a stand to stamp out global poverty. Former Chancellor Gordon Brown takes over today as 52nd prime minister of the United Kingdom. His predecessor, Tony Blair, recently...
by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2007 | News
The Baptist General Convention of Texas and Buckner International have launched a new partnership working with local churches in Texas and beyond to help undocumented immigrants file papers to become U.S. citizens. Announced Tuesday at the BGCT-affiliated Hispanic...