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  Baptist Briefs: ‘Third Way’ church faces possible expulsion

  The 175-church Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association is expected to vote this fall on whether to expel a member congregation for embracing a “Third Way”—neither condemning nor affirming people who identify as homosexual.

  08/08/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Floyd: Have compassion on undocumented immigrant children

  The president of the Southern Baptist Convention insists Jesus would be sympathetic to the plight of undocumented children flocking to the southern border of the United States, because as a child, he also lived as an immigrant.

  08/07/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Following wife’s death, pastor practices what he preaches

  When Pastor Breonus Mitchell’s wife of 17 years, LaKisha, died at the age of 40 after a battle with breast cancer, he chose to put into practice what he’d been preaching for so long.

  08/07/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist ethics agency chief deals frequently with sex questions

  Russell Moore has spent much of his first year at the SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission writing blog posts on questions of Christian sexual ethics. And may times there are no easy answers.

  08/07/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  West African Baptists take measures as Ebola outbreak worsens

  Baptists in West Africa have created task forces, promoted educational campaigns and closed schools in response to the spread of Ebola—a regional health crisis that has claimed more than 900 lives.

  08/07/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Golden Gate campus fetches $85 million

  The sale of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, a 126-acre Southern Baptist campus with views of San Francisco Bay, brought $85 million.

  08/01/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Leader urges prayer for global crisis

  Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, called on each of the denomination’s 5,200 congregations to offer prayers each Sunday in August for nations impacted by the “continued escalation of conflict” around the globe this summer.

  07/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Gift of a breakfast biscuit leads to a changed life

  Brittney Hanvey doesn’t quite know what made her pull over to the side of the road back in January to offer a homeless man a biscuit. But that seemingly small act set off a chain of events that helped transform a life.

  07/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Church revitalizers struggle to balance optimism, pessimism

  Church revitalization is increasing, but is there enough interest to spark change?

  07/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  War on poverty still not won after 50 years, advocates say

  When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, about 19 percent of the nation lived in poverty. For the first time, a sitting president was prepared to marshal all the nation’s resources to combat it. Fifty years later, victory remains elusive.

  07/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  BWA resolution calls border surge a ‘humanitarian crisis’

  The surge of unaccompanied children from Central America into the United States “is not primarily an issue of unprotected borders but a humanitarian crisis,” according to a resolution the Baptist World Alliance General Council approved in Izmir, Turkey.

  07/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Judge approves children’s home settlement

  A federal judge has approved a settlement in a 14-year legal battle over government funding of Baptist homes for children in Kentucky.

  07/11/2014 - By John Rutledge