WASHINGTON (BP) – Democrats have plenty of choices for a presidential nominee in 2020 but not when it comes to the abortion issue. As of March 4, 195 candidates had filed with the Federal Election Commission for the Democratic nomination for president, according to Ballotpedia. They are seeking to be the nominee of a party committed to abortion rights. In fact, 8 of these 12 candidates are so devoted to assuring a dead child is the result of every abortion attempt that they have opposed … [Read more...]
NAMB church planter takes gospel into Miami’s complex culture
MIAMI – Full of color, life, beauty and disparity, Miami is a city where “you can lose yourself and find yourself all at the same time,” said church planting missionary Muche Ukegbu. Miami’s spectrum of economic, ethnic and cultural diversity generates a complexity that Ukegbu and his family have been navigating since moving to the city to start their church, The Brook Church, which launched in the April of 2015. As residents in Miami attempt to find themselves, they experience a certain … [Read more...]
Santiago rebuilds communities in Puerto Rico
COMERIO, Puerto Rico – When Jorge Santiago left Puerto Rico as a young man, he never thought he would return. His family sent him to the U.S. mainland in a last-ditch effort to shake him loose from a lifestyle of doing and dealing drugs. “I never thought that I was going to come back to Comerío,” recalled Santiago of his home town, “and I didn’t want to come back.” In 2007, Santiago left behind a community that was struggling economically, whose people wrestled with hopelessness. Santiago … [Read more...]
BREAKING: LifeWay to close all brick & mortar stores in 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — LifeWay Christian Resources is charting a new course in 2019 marking a strategic shift of resources to a dynamic digital strategy. As part of the transition, LifeWay will close its 170 brick-and-mortar stores in 2019. The organization will continue to offer a broad selection of resources through LifeWay.com and the LifeWay Customer Service Center (1-800-458-2772). LifeWay Customer Service hours are Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Central). LifeWay will also continue … [Read more...]
Conservative Resurgence: ‘Death in the Pot’: MBTS Elliott Controversy prompts 1963 revision of Baptist Faith & Message
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fifth 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 the previous article in the series, click here: "A faith worth life, death – 1958 ‘Lexington Road Massacre’ ignites efforts to rid SBC of liberalism." KANSAS CITY – In his farewell to Southern Baptists during their 1963 annual meeting here, outgoing Southern Baptist Convention President … [Read more...]
SBC bylaws workgroup releases sexual abuse response
NASHVILLE (BP) – Following a called meeting via extended conference calls on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 22-23), members of the SBC Executive Committee bylaws workgroup have released a statement responding to SBC President J.D. Greear's report earlier this week on sexual abuse. In his Feb. 18 report, Greer specifically named 10 churches included in recent news reports about sexual abuse cases involving Southern Baptist congregations. He noted these churches should be asked to assure the … [Read more...]
Greenway nominated to lead Southwestern Seminary
FORT WORTH - Southwestern Seminary alumnus Adam W. Greenway, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been unanimously selected by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Presidential Search Committee as their nominee to fill the presidential vacancy. Greenway, 41, has served in many denominational leadership roles, including vice chairman of the Evangelism Task Force (2018), president of the Kentucky … [Read more...]
Sexual abuse and mandated reporting: What is your responsibility?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was released, Feb. 13, by the Missouri Baptist Children's Home, an entity of the Missouri Baptist Convention, in response to the Houston Chronicle's recent report on sexual abuse among Southern Baptists. ST. LOUIS (MBCH) – The Houston Chronicle recently released part 1 of a 3-part series on sexual misconduct by Southern Baptist pastors, deacons, Sunday school teachers and volunteers. It is a sobering and extremely concerning report that the very … [Read more...]
Dockery appoints members to SBU Peer Assessment Committee
BOLIVAR, Mo. (SBU) — Dr. David Dockery, chair of Southwest Baptist University’s Peer Assessment Committee to discuss faith, learning and orthodoxy at the university, has appointed five additional committee members. Committee members are: Dr. David Dockery, committee chair, is president of Trinity International University in Chicago and previously served as president of Union University in Jackson, Tenn., for almost two decades. He is a respected leader in Southern Baptist higher … [Read more...]
Monkey business: As liberalism increased in SBC, evolution debates motivated adoption of BFM 1925
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third 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 the previous article in the series, click here: Abandoning the faith: Lottie Moon, Crawford H. Toy and the infiltration of liberalism in the SBC. In July 1925, a circus of journalists and lawyers, as well as a mishmash of social reformers and pleasure-seekers, descended upon the nearly … [Read more...]
Paper’s sexual abuse report leaves SBC’s Greear ‘broken’
HOUSTON (BP) – A Houston newspaper, in reporting on instances of sexual abuse by pastors and others at Southern Baptist churches, has left SBC President J.D. Greear "broken over what was revealed today." "The abuses described in this @HoustonChron article are pure evil," Greear stated in a series of tweets after the Houston Chronicle reported today (Feb. 10) on instances of abuse by ministers, youth pastors, Sunday School teachers, deacons and church volunteers. Along with its … [Read more...]
Chick-fil-A founder’s legacy served up in daughter’s new book
ATLANTA (BP) – Mountains fascinate Trudy Cathy White, from the mountaintop outside her childhood home where parents Jeannette and Truett Cathy of Chick-fil-A fame led family Bible studies to the rough spiritual mountains that have tried her faith. White, a Christian entrepreneur, speaker and former International Mission Board missionary, offers wisdom from personal mountaintops in a new book, “Climb Every Mountain: Finding God Faithful in the Journey of Life.” She and husband John built … [Read more...]
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