JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s highest state court has turned down a request to examine a district court ruling favoring Windermere Baptist Conference Center.
The economic crisis in the U.S. has had an effect on Baptist institutions in Missouri, including lesser levels of donor income. But they are weathering challenging
Lebanon — National Woman's Missionary Union Executive Director Wanda Lee challenged Baptist women across Missouri to love God and others through prayer, giving and missional living.
Missouri Baptist pastor and educator Thomas Stewart Field, 93, of Springfield died March 12 at Cox South Hospital in Springfield. He was president of William Jewell College from 1970 to 1980 and interim
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Baptist Convention on Feb. 18 asked the Western District Court of Appeals to rehear its appeal of its case against Windermere Baptist Conference Center. On the same day, convention attorneys appealed the appellate court’s Feb. 3 ruling in Windermere’s favor
Feb. 3 marked a pair of significant new developments among Baptists in Missouri: (1) the election of interim David Tolliver as the Missouri Baptist Convention’s new executive director and (2) an appeals court decision in favor of Windermere Baptist Conference Center and against the MBC.
By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer Four Missouri marathoners all say the endurance sport provides an avenue for deepening their faith, giving them time to focus on God and helping them enhance other areas of life. One of them, Hugh Emerson, member of First Baptist
JEFFERSON CITY — Seven members of rival conservative groups in the Missouri Baptist Convention will go to mediation in an effort to bring about peace within their respective ranks. The MBC Executive Board voted on April 15 to create a “peace committee” that will submit
By Robert Marus REPUBLIC, Mo. (ABP) — As battles between conservatives continue to roil the Missouri Baptist Convention, one prominent layman in the state is proposing a miniature re-creation of the infamous Southern Baptist Convention “Peace Committee.” But the convention’s president — cautioning that he