Barbershop Patrons Stir a Church Plant
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
New Beginnings Christian Fellowship in metro St. Louis came into being after barber Sean Boone heard younger patrons say they wanted no part of the traditional church.
FROM THE STATES: Ill., N.C., La., N.M. Evangelism/missions News
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
Obama, GOP Differ Whether Nation Is ‘stronger’
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
The United States is “getting stronger,” President Obama declared Tuesday in the final State of the Union speech of his first, and possibly only, term. The president’s annual address to a joint session of Congress and a national television audience pro…
IMB’s Top Pictures of 2011 Reflect God’s Heart
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
Images captured by International Mission Board photographers as they followed IMB workers and their ministry partners into the world can be viewed in a photo gallery retrospective for 2011.
Woman to Lead American Baptists in Indiana, Kentucky
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) – Soozi Whitten Ford, an ordained minister and longtime American Baptist leader, has been named executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky.
Anti-violence Advocate Awarded By FBI
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) – Former Baptist Women in Ministry leader Kathy Manis Findley recently received an award from the FBI recognizing her efforts to combat domestic violence and child abuse in Arkansas.
Leonard Installed in Baptist Studies Chair At Wake Divinity School
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Amid academic pageantry, Baptist historian Bill Leonard was officially installed Jan. 24 as the first Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
Chinese New Year: Yearning for a Blessing (and for Meaning)
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
The Chinese New Year countdown begins with the beating of a drum, followed by the crowd racing to the temple altar to receive the first blessing of the year. T.Y. Po watched and thought about his own blessings that day — sharing Christ with his extend…
Gingrich Captures S.C. Evangelicals, Momentum
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich won the support of South Carolina’s evangelical and pro-life voters during that state’s GOP primary, helping him to win the primary with ease and to position himself perhaps as the leading challenger to M…
Poll: U.S. Knows What John 3:16 References
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in Baptists, Denominations, Top Religion News
The popular Bible verse “John 3:16″ is seen often at sporting events and throughout popular culture, but do Americans even know what it’s referencing? A new survey suggests they do.