State convention re-elects slate of officers

November 26, 2009

Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention meeting tapped the leaders in their three top posts to serve a second term this year. Jimmy Jackson

Love, support for Cooperative Program showcased at state convention annual meeting

November 26, 2009

One state convention goer mentioned holding a competition for the person who could find the words “Cooperative Program” (CP) the most times in the exhibit

Songwriters Keith and Kristyn Getty bring ‘modern hymns’ to convention

November 26, 2009

Somewhere in the no man’s land between traditional hymns and contemporary praise choruses, there’s something a little different. It’s a breed of music that a

National Council of Churches installs new president

November 19, 2009

NEW YORK — The National Council of Churches (NCC) installed a new president, Peg Chemberlin, and president-elect, Kathryn Lohre, in a ceremony Nov. 12. They

Christian prison proposed in small Okla. town

November 19, 2009

WAKITA, Okla. — A tiny town in Oklahoma is throwing its support behind a push to build a privately run, faith-based prison that would employ

South Carolina court nixes Christian license plate

November 19, 2009

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Christian license plate in South Carolina has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal district court. The license plate showed a cross,

Lutherans to apologize for persecution

November 19, 2009

Lutheran World Federation (LWF) leaders plan to apologize for their ancestors’ 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors include Mennonites and the Amish. “We