Scott Barkley

AUGUSTA, Me. (BP) – One of the traits that makes Maine and New England a fertile area for the Gospel is the same one that leaves many an out-of-state missionary asking, “What did I do?”

NASHVILLE (BP) – Trustees for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission selected seven from their group today (Aug. 14) as the team to search for the entity’s next president.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – When Dan McSwain’s construction business needed a bigger space on Old Milton Parkway in 2005, he prayed over the property and placed Bibles opened to various passages in doorways. Twenty years later, that building has become the new home of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.

DOVER, Ohio (BP) – Like other members of Dover Baptist Church, 90-year-old Violet Allen brings her offering every Sunday. It includes about 20 containers of a dozen eggs, straight from her farm.

CATAWBA, Va. (BP) – Authorities say Jacob Barnett used various social media accounts to solicit sexually explicit material from underage girls across state lines while serving as youth pastor at Catawba Valley Baptist Church, leading to his arrest on Aug. 7.

NASHVILLE(BP) – A newly available series of interviews with Southern Baptist leaders highlights the importance of active, intentional cooperation in areas such as student evangelism and mobilization, seminary education, missions and sexual abuse prevention.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – Liberty Counsel has filed the opening brief to seek dismissal of a wrongful termination case brought by a former Liberty University employee who hid his steps to transition and identify as a female during the hiring process.

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (BP) – Roswell Street Baptist Church, one of the larger Southern Baptist congregations in Georgia as well as the SBC in its heyday, will soon become a campus of First Baptist Church in Woodstock.

CLEVELAND, Ga. (BP) – The results of a third-party investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by a former Truett-McConnell University student will be made available to trustees at the end of September, a TMU spokesperson told Baptist Press today (August 6).

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – It’s hard to find a more trusted name in the state of Alabama than James Spann. If the meteorologist were to run for governor today, no one would bother challenging him.