What Should it Cost a denomination to Control Governance of a University?
In some cases, the denominational bodies control 100% of a university’s trustee nominations while providing a minute fraction of the annual revenue. Read full piece
CBF, Mercer collaborate to offer conference on sexuality in 2012
ATLANTA (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Mercer University are co-sponsors of a “[Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant” scheduled April 19-21, 2012, at First Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga.
CBF-funded Mercer team seeks to attend to Haiti’s psychological wounds
ATLANTA(ABP) -- Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-funded team of students with Haitian ties and faculty members from Mercer University is seeking to help the country recover from its deep psychological wounds.
Mercer taps former Southwestern Seminary professor to lead church-music institute
MACON, Ga. (ABP) -- David Keith, a professor of church music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for 27 years before retiring in 2006, has been named director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.
Mercer taps former Southwestern Seminary professor to lead church-music institute
MACON, Ga. (ABP) -- David Keith, a professor of church music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for 27 years before retiring in 2006, has been named director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.
Gushee to head new Mercer Center for Theology and Public Life
ATLANTA (ABP) -- Baptist ethicist David Gushee will head up a new effort by Mercer University to foster what the school calls “theologically based discussions on current issues and controversies.”
CBF teams with Mercer to provide prosthetics for Haitian amputees
ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has awarded a $50,000 grant to Mercer University to provide affordable prosthetics for Haiti, where thousands of people lost limbs in the January 2010 earthquake.
Thomas, Mercer, Schlup retire from MBC
By Vicki Brown, Word&Way News WriterWhen three Missouri Baptist Convention employees retired from their posts at the end of last year, they took a wealth of experience and commitment with them. Larry Thomas, Ken Mercer and Helen Schlup each said they were grateful God had