April 2010

Lawsuit dismissal is a relief

author: Administrator

While Word&Way is pleased that the Missouri Baptist Convention's legal action is over for the news journal, we long for the day when the final three cases — those against the Missouri Baptist University, the Missouri Baptist Foundation and The Baptist Home — are

McCaughan celebrated as a ‘leader of influence’

author: Administrator

Missions and ministry are what marked Vivian McCaughan, coworkers, ministry partners, friends and family repeatedly emphasized at two services April 23-24 celebrating her life. The longtime North American Mission Board missionary passed away April 18 at her home after a battle with ovarian cancer. She

MBC dips into reserves to pay legal bills

Even though it has had a fund in place since 2003 for gifts to cover cost of litigation, the Missouri Baptist Convention will dip into its reserves to pay legal fees due now.

Meeting April 13 at the Baptist Building, Executive Board

Missouri CBFers become living testimonies

author: Administrator

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Missouri, including the Glory Pickers, participated in community service as part of its General Assembly April 16-17 at University Heights Baptist Church, Springfield.

Familiar places may have secret messages

Easter’s secular trappings are over for another year. Sally Forth has bitten the ears off the chocolate bunny in her comic strip, baskets have been put away, and the plastic grass has just about all come out of the carpet.

And Easter

Southern Baptist jailed in Haiti to stand trial on reduced charge

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Southern Baptist mission volunteer Laura Silsby will stand trial in Haiti on a charge of arranging irregular travel, CNN reported April 26.

Obama shifts tactics on outreach to Muslim world

author: Jennifer Harris

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Nearly a year after President Obama told an audience in Cairo that America wanted a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, evidence of that policy shift has, in recent weeks, become hard to ignore.

Faith leaders pan Arizona ‘anti-immigrant’ bill

author: Jennifer Harris

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Religious leaders are outraged over a bill passed by Arizona legislators that criminalizes illegal immigration, calling the bill “anti-immigrant” and a “social sin.”

Obama meets with Billy Graham

April 26, 2010