2007 Archives
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Novelist Grisham joins New Baptist Covenant speakers lineup
Posted: 12/21/07
Novelist Grisham joins New
Baptist Covenant speakers lineupBy Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
ATLANTA (ABP)—Best-selling author John Grisham, whose recent novels have revealed his deeply rooted Christian faith, will deliver a rare public speech at the New Baptist Covenant meeting in late January.
Grisham, a member of University Baptist Church in Charlottesville, Va., joins a lineup of Baptists who will address the three-day interracial meeting in Atlanta, including former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and Republican senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Charles Grassley (Iowa).
John Grisham “The Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant,” organized by Carter, will seek to unite an estimated 20 million Baptists Jan. 30 – Feb. 1 around an agenda of Christ-centered social ministry. Forty Baptist organizations in the United States and Canada are participating, including the four main black Baptist conventions and most of the other Baptist denominations except the Southern Baptist Convention.
12/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Missouri leader who warned of Islamic takeover hired to aid world-mission effort
Posted: 12/21/07
Missouri leader who warned of Islamic
takeover hired to aid world-mission effortRICHMOND, Va. (ABP)—David Clippard, the former Missouri Baptist Convention executive who earned national headlines when he said Islam has a plan to “conquer and occupy” the United States, was hired Dec. 10 by the Southern Baptist Convention’s world-missions agency to enlist Baptist churches to spread the gospel to non-Christians worldwide.
According to a news release from the International Mission Board, Clippard will serve as managing director of the IMB’s church services team. He will use his new position to enable all Southern Baptist churches to reach the world’s 6,000 unreached people groups, the release said. He is especially interested in involving young pastors in the outreach.
David Clippard Clippard won national attention in 2006 when he preached a sermon to the Missouri convention claiming the “real threat” to the United States is that “Islam has a strategic plan to conquer and occupy America.”
He claimed the Saudi Arabian government paid for 15,000 Muslim college students to come to North America to study and funded scores of Islamic study centers and mosques here with the intention of taking the continent for Islam. “They are after our sons and daughters, our students,” he said.
12/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist outreach defuses Ebola fear in western Uganda
Posted: 12/21/07
Baptist outreach defuses
Ebola fear in western UgandaBy Sue Sprenkle
International Mission Board
FORT PORTAL, Uganda (BP)—When the deadly Ebola virus began spreading in western Uganda, Southern Baptist missionaries and Baptist Global Response moved to respond.
Thirty-five people have died since the Ugandan Health Ministry documented a new strain of the virus. Although now apparently declining, the deadly hemorrhagic fever broke out in Uganda's Bundibugyo district in August, killing a number of people before tests confirmed it was Ebola Nov. 29.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map) 12/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Blogging pastor lauded for defending fired female seminary professor
Posted: 12/21/07
Blogging pastor lauded for defending
fired female seminary professorBy John Pierce
Baptists Today
MINNEAPOLIS (ABP)—One of Southern Baptists’ most outspoken pastors has been recognized for his defense of women—even though he does not believe women should serve as pastors.
Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Okla., and former president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, recently received the Priscilla and Aquila Award from Christians for Biblical Equality.
12/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Board voting on Daehnert as interim executive director
Posted: 12/20/07
Board voting on Daehnert
as interim executive directorBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Jan Daehnert, a retired Baptist Building employee who led the state convention’s intentional interim pastor program several years, has been recommended as interim executive director for the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board.
Board directors are casting e-mail ballots beginning today. If elected, Daehnert will start work in January, meeting with Executive Board staff. He will begin service as interim executive director when Charles Wade retires Jan. 31 and will continue in that role until a new executive director assumes duties.
Jan Daehnert 12/20/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Fair-trade items offer Christmas gifts with a conscience
Posted: 12/14/07
Fair-trade items offer
Christmas gifts with a conscienceBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
NEW YORK (ABP)—What’s the perfect revenge for the flannel-lined hot-water bottle Aunt Sharon gave you last year? Or the Michael Bolton CD from your brother-in-law?
Maybe a toilet. Or an ox. A bag of seeds would work, for that matter.
12/17/2007 - By John Rutledge
