CBF Council OKs Catch-up Funding for BCE

The Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship on Wednesday approved a one-time contribution of $30,000 to the Baptist Center for Ethics to make up a funding shortfall. Emmanuel McCall, head of the council’s Building Community and Networking...

American Baptists Grapple With Homosexuality

As many as 2,000 American Baptists are expected to meet this weekend in Denver under a cloud of controversy At least three regions have threatened to leave or stop donations to the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. unless the denomination moves toward ousting...

British Church Leaders Urge Bush to Fight Poverty

Leaders of evangelical Christian churches and organizations in the United Kingdom have sent an open letter to the U.S. President, George W Bush, urging him to help alleviate world poverty. The letter, of which David Coffey, general secretary of the Baptist Union of...

SBC Motion Asks WMU to Waive Auxiliary Status

The Southern Baptist Convention could ask Woman’s Missionary Union to surrender its auxiliary status and submit to convention control under a motion introduced last week at the SBC annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Another motion at this year’s SBC called...

Supreme Court Rulings Split on Ten Commandments Displays

A divided United States Supreme Court on Monday ruled that some, but not all, displays of the Ten Commandments on public property are constitutional. Sparked by legal battles of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, public displays of the Ten Commandments have...