by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2008 | News
Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Land apparently thought he had good reason for refusing to sign a recent statement by fellow Southern Baptists calling for action on global warming. He believes the Earth is getting colder. On the March 1 broadcast of the...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
A prominent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Alabama has dismissed a popular minister of music under arrest on charges of child abuse and third-degree sex offense stemming from events alleged to have occurred several years ago in Maryland. Police in Hoover,...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
Baptists in Ecuador are asking global Baptists for relief funds to help them respond to the worst floods in a quarter century. Heavy seasonal rains since January have inundated much of the South American country. Dozens are dead or missing and thousands have been...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., reportedly voted Wednesday night to loan up to $500,000 for start-up funds of a new Christian academy. A Web site launched Thursday said First Baptist Academy of Jacksonville will open in the fall of 2009, initially with 240...
by BWA Staff | Mar 14, 2008 | News
WASHINGTON (BWA) The head of BMS World Mission, the British Baptist mission agency, has been selected to be the 10th president of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago. Alistair Brown, general director of BMS World Mission since 1996, was elected as the...
by Bob Allen | Mar 13, 2008 | News
An American Baptist leader welcomed passage by a House panel of a bill that would grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products. The Democrat-controlled Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday...
