• 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

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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

• 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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  Baptist Briefs

  George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, has been named chair of a nine-member search committee to find a new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship executive coordinator.

  11/11/2011 - By Administrator

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  Speakers chosen for New Baptist Covenant II gathering Nov. 17-19

  Social activists Marian Wright Edelman and Tony Campolo will join former President Jimmy Carter and seven other speakers on the program of the New Baptist Covenant II, a Nov. 17-19 gathering of diverse Baptists in Atlanta that will be linked by satellite and Internet to dozens of viewing locations around the country, including sites in San Antonio and Oklahoma City.

  11/02/2011 - By Administrator

• CBF task force suggests organizational change

  A blue-ribbon task force studying the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's organizational structure suggests a smaller governing board than the current 63-member Coordinating Council, along with creation of two new councils to focus on cooperation and global missions.

  10/27/2011 - By Administrator

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  Mississippi Baptists back ‘Personhood Amendment’

  The Mississippi Baptist Convention is backing a constitutional amendment facing voters Nov. 8 that would declare a fertilized human egg to be a person, effectively branding abortion as murder.

  10/27/2011 - By Administrator