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  Former SBC president nominated to lead Executive Committee

  Former Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page is being nominated as president of the SBC Executive Committee, one of three key leadership positions in the nation's second-largest faith group in the process of being filled.

  05/18/2010 - By Administrator

• Final U.S. Baptist released from Haiti

  The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake was released May 17 after a judge found her guilty and sentenced her to time already served in jail.

  05/17/2010 - By Administrator

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  Grand jury hears evidence in church-arson cases

  A grand jury began hearing testimony May 13 in the case of two men suspected of burning down 10 churches in East Texas in January and February, a television station in Tyler, Texas, reported.

  05/14/2010 - By Administrator

• Missouri convention wants control or assets of remaining litigants

  Regaining control is the heart of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s ongoing legal action against three formerly affiliated institutions. If control cannot be restored, then the convention would like its “stuff” returned, a Cole County judge learned May 11.

  05/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  Music minister adds to massive collection one hymnal at a time

  Ever since he discovered at a second-hand bookstore a 1937 Stamps-Baxter paperback edition of Favorite Radio Songs from KRLD in Dallas– autographed by Virgil Stamps– Ron Veal's been hooked on hymnals.

  05/13/2010 - By admin

• Huntsville campus encounters the gospel through a pair of chairs

  Each Tuesday during the fall and spring semesters, Lauren Sierra, campus missionary for the Sam Houston State University Baptist Student Ministry, walked to the center of campus where student activities were buzzing, taking with her two metal folding chairs and a white board that read, “Take a seat—questions about life.”

  05/13/2010 - By admin

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  Religious leaders decry proposed Texas textbook standards

  Two Baptist ministers joined about two dozen other religious leaders in a May 12 press conference at the Texas Capitol to decry school textbook standards they say would weaken instruction about religious liberty and the separation of church and state.

  05/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Book says white churches can learn from blacks

  After resigning abruptly in 1992 from one of the largest and most influential churches in the nation, First Baptist Church in Dallas, and going through a divorce within two years, Joel Gregory's ministry appeared to be over. Through it all, he says, one minister kept calling him.

  05/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Researchers probe whether, why, free will exists

  Are people really responsible for all the things they do? Do they have “free will” to choose between right and wrong? Those questions are at the heart of a four-year research project at Florida State University to determine whether, and how, free will exists.

  05/12/2010 - By admin

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  Chilean pastors living in tents as winter approaches

  More than two months after an earthquake rocked Chile, rains have begun and winter soon will arrive, leaving a group of Baptist pastors bracing for the cold in small tents that have become their impromptu homes in the wake of the disaster.

  05/12/2010 - By admin

• Memorial cross at center of recent Supreme Court case reportedly stolen

  A cross in the middle of the Mojave Desert that inspired a passionate Supreme Court debate about religious freedom reportedly has been stolen.

  05/11/2010 - By Administrator

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  University to investigate alleged untruths by seminary president

  Liberty University will investigate reports that its seminary president has misled the public in his testimony about converting from militant Islam to Christianity, officials of the school in Lynchburg, Va., announced May 10.

  05/11/2010 - By Administrator