President Mahmoud Abbas has guaranteed that at least seven seats of a new legislative council will go to Christians in the elections in the occupied territories to be held May 22. The measure would give Christians an outsized representation on the council.
Shane Claiborne writes that he will be voting on Nov. 3. But he will not be looking for a political savior. He will be looking to do damage control. He’ll be voting for the politicians who he believe will do the least amount of damage
R. Alan Culpepper (left) praised former seminary staff colleague Molly Marshall (right) as a visionary leader during a 10th anniversary celebration of her presidency
The Windermere Baptist Conference Center Board of Trustees has named a new president and CEO — John Bailey — to succeed Jerry Hill, who resigned the position on Aug. 5. Bailey’s first day in the office was Jan. 5.
Messengers elected a new slate of officers and mainly handled routine matters during brief business sessions of the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting Oct. 27-29 at Tan-Tar-A Resort on the shores of the Lake of the Ozarks.
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The Missouri Baptist Children’s Home Board of Trustees elected Russell L. Martin to be the next Children’s Home president during its April 22 meeting at the Bridgeton, Mo., headquarters.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Churchnet elected both its first layperson and its first woman as president when it named Donna Potts as the top elected leader during the organization’s annual gathering April 5-6 at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City.
Andy Chambers, senior vice president for student development at Missouri Baptist University, saw an 18-year-old dream realized with when Broadman and Holman Academic released his first book Exemplary Life: A Theology of Church Life in Acts on Nov. 1.
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