Houses of Worship Helping Solve Foster Care Crisis in Oklahoma
EDMOND, Okla. (RNS) — When Cody and Breanna Brumley began the process of adoption a few years ago, they asked two dear friends in their
Houses of Worship Mobilize for Back-To-School Time
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) — Christy Watson, communications director for the Oklahoma State School Boards Association, said she has noticed a definite uptick in engagement between
In Red-State Oklahoma, Marijuana Ballot Question Splits People of Faith
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) — As Presbyterian minister Bobby Griffith sees it, legalizing medical marijuana in Oklahoma could help arthritis sufferers with chronic pain and
Okla. Church Grows From a Street Corner Among the Homeless
TULSA, Okla. (BP) -- A church that started with no home now offers a home and hope to people of all backgrounds, economic statuses
CBF sets up ways to give, volunteer in Oklahoma
The Cooperative Baptist Fellow is mobilizing and coordinating relief efforts through CBF churches in the Oklahoma City area as well as Cooperating Baptists Fellowship of Oklahoma.
Speak up for justice & counter inequality, preachers tell Oklahoma City crowd
The world’s brokenness calls out for Christians who will speak courageously on behalf of justice and fairness, a trio of pastors told participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite sessions in Oklahoma City.
T, Kathie Thomas leaving Oklahoma CBF
NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) – Nearly 20 years after their appointment as the first missionary couple of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, T and Kathie Thomas are returning to France, where they formerly served as longtime Southern Baptist missionaries.
BJC says Oklahoma Sharia ban unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (ABP) – A Baptist religious-liberty group joined Jewish, Islamic and civil-liberties organizations in urging an appellate court to uphold a ban on Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia law.
Oklahoma pastor to share God’s love in Japan
HENRYETTA, Okla. (ABP) -- Dale Huckabay has had a heart for Japan and its people since he was stationed in Okinawa in his early adult life. Now the pastor of Tulledega Hills Baptist Church in Henryetta, Okla., Huckabay was as shocked as everyone when he
Baptist editor in Oklahoma resigns
OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) -- The editor of Oklahoma Baptists' news journal has resigned after just more than 15 months on the job.