• Speak up for justice & counter inequality, preachers tell OKC crowd

  The world’s brokenness calls out for Christians who will speak courageously on behalf of justice and fairness, a trio of pastors told participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite sessions in Oklahoma City.

  11/19/2011 - By Administrator

• OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending

  Payday lending traps many of America’s working poor in a vortex of debt, participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite meeting in Oklahoma City learned.

  11/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity

  Former President Jimmy Carter told veteran journalist Bob Abernethy that he’s seen progress in areas that prompted him to convene a New Baptist Covenant gathering in 2008 and New Baptist Covenant II gatherings scattered across nine locations linked by satellite TV Nov. 17-19.

  11/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  New Baptist Covenant speakers proclaim ‘release’ to captives

  Baptists must view prison ministry as more than prayer meetings and Bible studies if they are to follow Jesus’ Luke 4 mandate to “proclaim liberty to the captives,” former Arkansas Appeals Court Justice and Baptist pastor Wendell Griffen told the New Baptist Covenant II.

  11/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  McClatchy: Call people to follow Jesus, not pander to lowest values

  Ministers contribute to the decline of churches when they appeal to people’s lowest values of selfish consumerism rather than challenging them to follow Jesus, Rick McClatchy told a regional New Baptist Covenant II assembly in San Antonio. Rosalynn Carter (left) was among speakers at the Atlanta session, linked by satellite to locations around the country.

  11/17/2011 - By Administrator

• Baylor social work program gets major gift

  Baylor University’s School of Social Work has received a $3.6 million gift for a program for international students pursuing a master’s degree in social work.

  11/17/2011 - By Administrator

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  Letter opposing Christian Zionism sparks Israel debate

  Evangelical supporters of Israel fired back at a September open letter by two Baptist ethicists questioning theological and moral grounds of “Christian Zionism.”

  11/16/2011 - By Administrator

• Baylor course title sparks controversy

  Baylor University officials say a blogosphere storm over a course listing of “Homosexuality as a Gateway Drug” was blown out of proportion.

  11/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  Christians urged to worship, fellowship across racial lines

  Before Christians can bridge racial barriers to work together, they first must get to know each other in worship and fellowship, panelists and speakers told an interracial gathering at the predominantly African-American Zion Hill First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches.

  11/16/2011 - By Administrator

• Yale professor cites similarities between Mormons, Southern Baptists

  Southern Baptists who question Gov. Mitt Romney’s Christianity have more in common with Mormonism than they know, Yale literary critic and author Harold Bloom opined in a New York Times commentary Nov.12.

  11/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  British Baptist newspaper to cease publication

  The Baptist Times, an award-winning newspaper published weekly for British Baptists for 156 years, will cease both print and digital editions at the end of the year.

  11/14/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptist leader Dewey Presley dies

  William Dewey Presley, one of the most influential leaders of his generation in Baptist life, died Nov. 10 at the age of 93.

  11/11/2011 - By Administrator