• BWA leaders cut spending, make bylaws revisions

  Members of the Baptist World Alliance’s executive committee heard a sobering financial report detailing investment losses over the last year, agreed to slash the group’s budget, gave initial approval to organizational changes and met BWA’s new director for freedom and justice during their annual meeting.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: Leonard stepping down at Wake Forest

  Leonard to step down as Wake Forest dean. Bill Leonard, the founding dean of the Wake Forest University Divinity School, is stepping down next year, school officials announced.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

• Groups oppose rules limiting books in prison chapels

  WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is among several religious and civil-liberties groups objecting to proposed rules giving federal prisons more leeway to ban religious books that officials believe could incite violence or criminal behavior.

  03/19/2009 - By admin

• On the Move

  Darrel Auvenshine has resigned as minister of worship and missions at Alsbury Church in Burleson to pursue full-time missions work.

  03/19/2009 - By admin

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  Around the State

  Wayland Baptist University will hold its spring preview event March 27-28. “Big Weekend” offers high school juniors and seniors and prospective transfer students an opportunity to see how the campus works.

  03/19/2009 - By admin

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  Evangelical groups protest religion law in Kyrgyz Republic

  Evangelical leaders in the Kyrgyz Republic are protesting a new religion law they say significantly restricts religious freedom in the officially secular country.

  03/17/2009 - By Administrator

• Widow of slain pastor says she isn’t angry at accused killer

  The widow of slain Baptist pastor Fred Winters says she harbors no anger toward her husband's alleged murderer.

  03/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Church gathers for worship week after pastor slain

  One of a select fraternity of pastors who has experienced a church shooting consoled and challenged an Illinois Baptist congregation one week after its popular pastor was fatally shot while preaching his Sunday sermon.

  03/16/2009 - By Administrator

• Slain Baptist pastor hailed as hero, martyr

  A fellow pastor and former church member hailed slain Baptist preacher Fred Winters as a "hero and a martyr" at a memorial service at First Baptist Church of Maryville, Ill., March 13.

  03/13/2009 - By Administrator

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  Waco senior adults take books to the border

  Senior adults at Seventh & James Baptist Church in Waco donated funds for literacy book fairs that will help families along the Rio Grande.

  03/12/2009 - By admin

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  Students find meaning in spiritual disciplines of Lent

  Like a growing number of Christians from outside liturgical traditions, students at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor are discovering Lent—and finding the 40-day observance beneficial for their spiritual growth.

  03/12/2009 - By admin

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  Martial-arts seminar at Baptist school leads kung-fu master to Christ

  Taiwanese kung-fu master Liu Chang found Christ while leading a seminar at Virginia Baptist-affiliated Bluefield College.

  03/11/2009 - By Administrator