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Death penalty repeal is on Calif. ballot

Published on October 29, 2012

California will vote Nov. 6 whether to repeal its death penalty and replace the maximum punishment for murder with life in prison without parole.... Continue Reading »

2 congregations lay claim to 1st Baptist church west of Miss.

Published on October 1, 2012

Both congregations say they are the church Willis founded in 1812 in Bayou Chicot and are celebrating their bicentennials this year, each laying claim as the oldest Baptist church in Louisiana.... Continue Reading »

Biracial church planter hailed 200 years later

Published on October 1, 2012

>In the same year the Southern Baptist Convention has elected its first African American president, historians are hailing the work of a former slave who established the first Baptist church west of the Mississippi River.... Continue Reading »

Luter vows to help SBC’s entities reach Kingdom goals

Published on September 20, 2012

Fred Luter Jr. pledged to work with all Southern Baptist Convention entities to accomplish their Kingdom goals in his first presidential address to the SBC Executive Committee Sept. 17 in Nashville, Tenn.... Continue Reading »

Homeless Christians give $69.40 to missions

Published on September 13, 2012

A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow's two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels.... Continue Reading »

Luter: Billy Graham excited about future of SBC

Published on August 30, 2012

Billy Graham established a precedent early in his ministry during America's days of racial segregation by only proceeding with a crusade if blacks and whites could sit together in the audience. Graham's standard resonated with Fred Luter during a... Continue Reading »

Calvin Miller, author, pastor, prof, dies at 75

Published on August 30, 2012

Seminary professor, theologian and best-selling Christian author Calvin A. Miller died Aug. 19 of complications following open heart surgery. He was 75.... Continue Reading »

Homeless Christians give $69.40 to mission

Published on August 30, 2012

A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow"s two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels... Continue Reading »

Miss. church apologizes for barring wedding

Published on August 7, 2012

>First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., has publicly apologized after an African American couple was barred because of their race from holding their wedding at the predominantly white church.... Continue Reading »

Luter: Graham excited about future of SBC

Published on August 1, 2012

Graham was really excited about the future of the Southern Baptist Convention, and he was real excited that the convention had elected an African American president," Luter said.... Continue Reading »

Miss. wedding refusal not indicative of SBC

Published on July 31, 2012

The inability of an African American couple to wed at predominantly white First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., is not indicative of Southern Baptists, denominational leaders said.... Continue Reading »

Proposed web porn domains draw opposition

Published on July 17, 2012

Morality in Media is working to block new Internet pornography domains, months after the initiation of the .xxx portal, which was promoted as a central adult gateway to Internet porn.... Continue Reading »