by Brian Kaylor | Apr 7, 2009 | News
The president of the Baptist World Alliance, David Coffey, encouraged Baptists to continue to move forward with the movement that started last year with the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. A British Baptist leader, Coffey spoke April 3 during the third plenary...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 6, 2009 | News
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter encouraged Baptists to put aside disagreements, urging them instead to unite behind “the gospel’s simple message” that “we are saved by the grace of God through our faith in Jesus Christ.” Carter...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 3, 2009 | News
David Goatley, executive secretary-treasurer of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, urged Baptists gathering from several different denominations not to allow borders to separate them from one another. Goatley, who is also president of the North...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 26, 2009 | News
Thirty years ago today—on March 26, 1979—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. The result of months of negotiations, the two men met in Washington, D.C., with President Jimmy Carter to sign...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 16, 2009 | News
As more Americans log online to retrieve their news and information, newspapers across the country, which have seen years of declining subscriptions, are exploring new ways of capturing online readers and making a profit. Baptist state newspapers and other religious...
