Brandon Porter, Executive Committee vice president for convention communications, was welcomed as the next associational mission strategist (AMS) for the South Central Baptist Association in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Aug. 30.
Deadly flooding and mudslides along the Nepal-Tibet border — with terrifying images of the disaster caught on video — have claimed more than 500 lives.
Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has announced the formation of a group whose goal is “to help Southern Baptists achieve greater clarity and consensus around historic Baptist convictions, grounded in Scripture, concerning the office of pastor and women serving in ministry.”
At the F.A.I.T.H. Rider’s ministry tent during the 86th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally last week, “I met a quiet man with tattoos all over his arms wearing a T-shirt with cutoff sleeves who said he wanted to hear my testimony and enter our bike giveaway,” a F.A.I.T.H. Rider said.
The Nevada Baptist Convention has named Adam Mallette its next executive director/treasurer. Mallette, lead teaching pastor of King’s Church in Las Vegas, was approved to serve following a unanimous vote by the NBC’s Executive Board on Aug. 11 at a special called business meeting.
The legal battle continues. Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has appealed a federal court’s dismissal of the final claim in his lawsuit against the SBC, its Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions.
“Looking back more than two decades later, I realize Iraq refined my faith as much as it tested it.”
A U.S. district court has once again dismissed a suit brought by Johnny Hunt. The final summary judgment on the only remaining claim in the case was issued Wednesday (Aug. 12).
A U.S. District Court has reportedly dismissed “with prejudice” a lawsuit originally filed in 2019 that alleged defamation on the part of former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson.
With few exceptions, Baptists across the colonies, especially those who had experienced persecution, supported the American Revolution. Reasons included persecution, other grievances such as taxation without representation, and the tyranny exhibited by the British crown and royal governors.
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