Want to be baptized in the Jordan?

Baptists now have a special site to seek baptism in the Jordan, and at a special place — very near the traditional site at “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” where Jesus was baptized by John. Being “Beyond the Jordan” means it’s on the...

On the “collapse” of evangelicalism

A relatively recent Internet post by Michael Spencer, a.k.a. The Internet Monk, predicted that evangelicalism will collapse within ten years. The post was condensed and published in the Christian Science Monitor, and has stirred up a brief flurry of responses ranging...

CBFNC challenged to share gospel, use words

It’s not enough for believers to “walk the walk,” Fred Craddock told participants attending the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina’s 2009 General Assembly Mar. 20-21. “Somebody needs to talk the talk.”Craddock, a retired professor who is perennially...

BWIM NC celebrates preaching without words

As an artist created a colorful portrait of the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet, three “witnesses” and a liturgical dancer reminded Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina that the gospel can be proclaimed in many ways.BWIM NC met Mar. 21 at First Baptist Church in...