Nash nominated as CBF missions coordinator

Posted: 5/02/06

Nash nominated as CBF missions coordinator

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—Robert Nash has received the nomination for the global missions coordinator position at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. CBF council members will vote to approve the nomination at their annual meeting June 21 in Atlanta.

05/02/2006 - By John Rutledge

Playboy visits Baylor despite warnings

Posted: 5/02/06

Playboy visits Baylor despite warnings

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

WACO (ABP)—Playboy photographers held an open casting call April 18 at Baylor University, despite the university’s discipline and suspension in recent years of students who posed in the magazine.

05/02/2006 - By John Rutledge

Expert explores myths of multihousing ministry

Posted: 4/28/06

Expert explores myths
of multihousing ministry

By George Henson

Staff Writer

AMARILLO—Churches interested in reaching multitudes who do not know Christ as Savior should engage in multihousing ministry but do it with their eyes open, said Jeff Parsons, multihousing director for Amarillo Area Baptist Association.

04/29/2006 - By John Rutledge

RIGHT OR WRONG? Responding to the poor

Posted: 4/28/06

RIGHT OR WRONG?
Responding to the poor

The hurricanes along the Gulf of Mexico revealed a demographic identified as the “new poor.” What does that mean? What about the “old poor”? How do Christians respond to this theologically?

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Reccord resigns as NAMB president after trustee investigation

Posted: 4/28/06

Reccord resigns as NAMB president
after trustee investigation

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—After a trustee investigation produced a scathing report of numerous examples of poor management, Bob Reccord resigned as president of the North American Mission Board, effective immediately.

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Proclamation for Immigration Reform

Posted: 4/17/06

Proclamation for Immigration Reform

Hispanic Baptist Youth and Singles
Congreso Solemn Assembly, April 15, 2006

Whereas, our beloved United States of America, a nation of immigrants, is in the midst of the most dramatic immigration policy reform in the 21st century,

And whereas, 12 million undocumented immigrants are living and working in the United States today with 1.2 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas, And whereas, President George Bush has recommended that Congress considers comprehensive reform of U.S. Immigration Law,

And whereas, the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas and the Baptist General Convention of Texas passed resolutions in 2003 affirming Jesus’ concern for ministry to the “alien” and “stranger” in the land and encouraged “proactive involvement of ministry activity among immigrants, documented and undocumented, through prayer and action,”

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Missionaries refuse to resign under pressure

Posted: 4/28/06

Missionaries refuse to resign under pressure

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP)—After receiving an April 15 ultimatum to resign or face termination, Wyman and Michelle Dobbs refused to resign as International Mission Board missionaries in Guinea, West Africa.

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Resolution on Baptist dissent submitted

Posted: 4/28/06

Resolution on Baptist dissent submitted

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

ARLINGTON (ABP)—In a sign of the controversy threatening to engulf the Southern Baptist Convention’s upcoming annual meeting, a Texas pastor has formally submitted a resolution that accuses SBC leaders of trying to “silence principled dissent.”

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

IMB isolationism contrary to missions trend, experts say

Posted: 4/28/06

IMB isolationism contrary
to missions trend, experts say

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

DALLAS—At a time when collaboration and cooperation characterize Christian missions, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board appears to be moving toward isolation and exclusion, some veteran missionaries and missiologists insist.

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

BJC chief refutes ‘top 10 lies’ about church & state

Posted: 4/28/06

BJC chief refutes ‘top 10 lies’ about church & state

By Marv Knox

Editor

ABILENE—Americans are besieged by lies about the relationship of church and state, Brent Walker insisted during the Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon School of Theology, April 10-11.

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Five commandments for religious Americans in political life

Posted: 4/28/06

Five commandments for
religious Americans in political life

ABILENE—Religious Americans should follow five commandments as they “enter the fray of political life,” Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director Brent Walker advised.

Walker presented his commandments as part of the Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon School of Theology.

The commandments are:

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

ETBU students build in Laredo

Posted: 4/28/06

East Texas Baptist University student Matt Gillum of Aledo (left) works on a Habitat for Humanity project in Laredo during ETBU’s spring break. Other ETBU students served in Chicago and in Monterrey, Mexico. East Texas Baptist University student Hannah Parker of Atlanta, Texas, (right) gives up her spring break to help a Habitat for Humanity Project in Laredo.

04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge