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  Seminary president resigns ahead of confrontation with trustees

  Phil Roberts, the embattled president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, resigned Feb. 10. No reason was stated, and trustees gave no details about their called five-and-a-half hour meeting at a Kansas City hotel that prompted the 61-year-old to step down.

  02/10/2012 - By Administrator

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  Retiring CBF head to lead new center for Baptist leadership

  Retiring Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal has been tapped to lead Mercer University’s new Eula Mae and John Baugh Center for Baptist Leadership. Vestal will assume his new role July 1, the day after he retires as head of the Atlanta-based CBF, where he has served since 1996.

  02/08/2012 - By Administrator

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  New Orleans pastor may become first African-American SBC president

  After months of urging from other Baptists around the country, Fred Luter told his African-American congregation he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention.

  02/07/2012 - By Administrator

• Veteran Baptist communicator Lloyd Householder dies

  Lloyd Householder, 82, a veteran Southern Baptist denominational worker and communicator, died Jan. 30.

  02/02/2012 - By Administrator

• Pro-life, pro-choice speakers urge common ground on abortion

  After nearly 40 years of polarization over abortion, two speakers at a Mercer University event said Jan. 24 it is time for people who are pro-choice and pro-life to seek common ground to reduce the current number of 1.2 million abortions a year.

  01/24/2012 - By Administrator

• CBF search committee seeks input

  A 10-member committee seeking a successor to Daniel Vestal as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship executive coordinator met for the first time in Dallas in early January.

  01/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Ministers and staff serving in Southern Baptist churches have the opportunity to take the 2012 Compensation Survey at www.guidestone.org/compensationsurvey.

  01/19/2012 - By Administrator

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  Pressler denies Santorum endorsement was rigged

  The host of a weekend gathering of religious conservatives seeking consensus on an alternative presidential candidate to GOP front-runner Mitt Romney denied charges that balloting was rigged to give Rick Santorum the nod over rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry.

  01/17/2012 - By Administrator

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  Remembering Baptists who died in 2012

  Baptist journalists, pioneers in racial reconciliation and beloved leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship were among deaths reported in 2012.

  01/12/2012 - By Administrator

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  Wiley Drake’s ‘Birther’ lawsuit has setback

  California pastor Wiley Drake’s three-year legal battle challenging President Obama’s eligibility received a setback Dec. 22, when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said he and other plaintiffs lacked legal standing to file their complaint.

  01/03/2012 - By Administrator

• 2011 notable deaths

  Here is a list of notable deaths in 2011 that were reported by Associated Baptist Press.

  12/23/2011 - By Administrator

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  2011 in the rearview mirror

  Associated Baptist Press published 586 news and feature stories in 2011. Some were more memorable than others. Here is a review of some of the year’s top newsmakers.

  12/23/2011 - By Administrator