Faulls replaces Fox as NAMB search chairman
October 5, 2006
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Greg Faulls, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Owensboro, Ky., has been named the new chairman of the North American Mission Board’s presidential
Baptist group ousts college for SBC ties
September 28, 2006
Although the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has established itself as a stalwart among conservatives, one group of Baptists thinks it’s not conservative enough. The General
Richmond seminary president plans retirement
September 21, 2006
RICHMOND, Va. — Thomas Graves, president of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) since 1991, has announced plans to retire next year. Citing health reasons,
Gardner-Webb gets $1 million for overseas study
September 21, 2006
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — A businesswoman’s contribution of more than $1 million to Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., will allow students of the university’s
‘Tongues’ debate surfaces again in SBC setting
September 21, 2006
FORT WORTH, Texas — When Dwight McKissic, a Southern Baptist pastor and trustee at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke in a chapel on the Fort
N.C. Baptist youth, 17, dies in fall during retreat
September 21, 2006
OXFORD, N.C. — A Baptist teenager from North Carolina died Sept. 9 in an apparent accident at a church youth retreat. Ozzie Vargas Jr., 17,
August CP giving down from same month in 2005
September 14, 2006
NASHVILLE — Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) for August 2006 were $15,521,035.75. This is 1.65 percent, or $260,632.53, below the
Baptist leaders share about work in Jordan, Iraq
September 14, 2006
Although the war in Iraq may have intensified some hostilities between Muslims and Christians in the region, God has been able to work in that
