Month: June 2012

This Friday evening, June 22, at the closing session of this year’s General Assembly in Fort Worth, Daniel Vestal will preach his final sermon as executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. This month, Daniel brings to a close his service as CBF’s longest-tenured executive coordinator. Patrick Anderson, editor of Christian Ethics Today and a Read more . . .

When the Baptist church in Raleigh was organized in 1812 on the second floor of the original state Capitol building, there were 23 charter members—9 white and 14 black. In 1868,  there was a peaceful separation of the two groups when the newly emancipated members established their own congregation. Thus begins the History page of Read more . . .

I read this morning that Dr. Wayne Allen, retired senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Carrollton, had passed away at the age of 82. I never had the privilege of meeting Dr. Allen, but his passing nevertheless moved me. His obituary gives a broader picture of his life, but the opening passage of an article Read more . . .