EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. DALLAS (BP) – For pastor's wife Ritchie Hale, attending the 1985 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting meant sleeping in a 1960 popup camper with her husband and four children amid 100-degree temperatures and … [Read more...]
Church models low-cost, replicable homeless ministry
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) – Any church can do this, pastor Rolland Slade told Baptist Press. On a vacant lot at Slade's senior pastorate Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., a tiny cabin is being built as an emergency, secure shelter for homeless women and children. "All that we were doing before was growing tumbleweeds," Slade told BP Aug. 7, regarding the land. "Where now, if we're able to build this little village of emergency sleeping cabins, we're able to minister to people. … [Read more...]
‘Letters to My Students,’ a guide for ministers from MBTS’s Jason Allen
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Through the years, Jason Allen has kept up with his correspondence and questions about ministry – some of it in the form of letters, emails, classroom lectures, phone conversations, or conference sermons and presentations. This material helped fuel a new book project, "Letters to My Students," authored by Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. B&H Publishing released the book July 30. Allen noted his interest in and interactions with … [Read more...]
GuideStone trustees affirm 20/20 & SBC response
SAN FRANCISCO (BP) – GuideStone Financial Resources trustees heard reports from the Southern Baptist entity's executive leadership team and staff about the ministry's key lines of business during their July 29–30 meeting in San Francisco. Trustees also adopted a response to a motion during the SBC annual meeting in June for convention entities to "provide an update related to their efforts to address abuse" for the 2020 SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. President O.S. Hawkins, in his … [Read more...]
So. Baptists respond to ‘horrific’ acts of violence
EL PASO, Texas (BP) – As two mass shootings over the weekend brought the total to three such tragedies in just over a week, Baptists prayed, met needs and called for an urgent look at how white supremacy can "fuel" violence. The shootings – all committed by young men – took the lives of 34 people across three cities. In El Paso, Texas, a 21-year-old man is in custody after a shooting in a Walmart left 22 people dead and 26 others injured on Saturday (Aug. 3). Then early Sunday morning … [Read more...]
NAMB lawsuit defends church’s ministry expansion
CLARKSTON, Ga. (BP) – A couple of old, uninhabitable farmhouses from the 1900s are in the spotlight of a lawsuit between the North American Mission Board and the City of Clarkston, Ga. NAMB says the city is slow walking a demolition permit that would allow the Southern Baptist entity to continue the expansion of the historic Clarkston International Bible Church. In an attempt to put the issue to rest, NAMB filed a lawsuit last week in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, an Atlanta … [Read more...]
Adrian Rogers’ widow to SBC: ‘Keep the Word of God’
NASHVILLE (BP) – Forty years after her husband began leading the Southern Baptist Convention in the Conservative Resurgence promoting a doctrine of biblical inerrancy, Joyce Rogers still hopes the best for the SBC. "I would hope that they would keep the Word of God in the center of their belief (and continue) in the inerrancy of the Word of God," she told Baptist Press during a telephone interview, June 28 from her doctor's waiting room. "My husband really was the one that fought for that, … [Read more...]
‘Orwellian mentality’ emerging? – In 1984, SBC agency heads waged ‘holy war’ … against conservatives
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. KANSAS CITY – In 1984, agency heads of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) broke their silence after watching conservatives win SBC presidential elections year-after-year since the election of Adrian Rogers in 1979. … [Read more...]
College students see lives change through GenSend
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – A group of students in Calgary had the opportunity to share their faith with another student and saw him come to Christ. The next week, another team of students, 3,400 miles away in Puerto Rico, led a grandmother to Christ. In New York City, an unexpected subway detour led a student to a gospel conversation with a Muslim man. All summer long, students participating in Send Relief's GenSend program have been living "on mission" in 19 cities across North America by … [Read more...]
Arkansas judge stalls abortion laws
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is written by Rachel Lynn Aldrich, who writes for WORLD Digital, a division of WORLD Magazine (www.wng.org) based in Asheville, NC. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – A federal judge in Arkansas blocked three new laws just before midnight Tuesday (July 23) that would protect unborn babies in the state. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker's 14-day temporary restraining order stopped the laws from taking effect on Wednesday (July 24). The measures would have protected … [Read more...]
U.S. ‘the fastest growing market’ for trafficking
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is article includes reporting from Diana Chandler of Baptist Press and from Pathway associate editor Benjamin Hawkins. WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. is among 33 top countries fighting human trafficking but falls short in prosecuting traffickers, aiding victims and tackling forced labor in particular, the U.S. State Department said in its latest “Trafficking in Persons Report” (TIP). Additionally, according to Fox News, the report ranked the U.S. among the top three … [Read more...]
SBC Credentials Committee elects Stacy Bramlett as chair
NASHVILLE (BP) – The Credentials Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention held its initial meeting July 22 by video conferencing, electing Stacey Bramlett of Tennessee as its chair. The nine-member Credentials Committee was repurposed during the SBC's 2019 annual meeting into a standing committee to make inquiries and recommendations for action regarding instances of sexual abuse, racism or other issues that call a church's relationship with the SBC into … [Read more...]
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