Suit filed over ‘Harry Potter’ discrimination
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (BP)–A Missouri Baptist is suing after she says she was discriminated against and suspended from her job for refusing to promote a “Harry Potter” book she believes promotes “worship of the occult.” Deborah Smith, a member of Temple Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff, filed suit in U.S. District Court in May against […]
Weather affects registration total
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Heavy rains and flooding helped cause a dip in registration at this year's Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, according to registration secretary Jim Wells. This year's unofficial messenger count was 7,277, down from 8,630 at the 2007 meeting ...
Abortion facility now a Baptist office
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (BP)–What a difference two years — and the Hand of God — can make. In October 2005, the building at 1837 East Cherry Street in Springfield, Mo., was home to the Springfield Healthcare Center, one of four abortion providers in Missouri. Fast forward to December 2007, and 1837 East Cherry Street –- once […]
Baptists restore first church west of Miss.
JACKSON, Mo. (BP)--Not far from the Mississippi River, sweet-sounding tones of the harpsichord and fiddle mingled with the chirping of the cicadas to accompany the voices of the faithful in well-worn hymns.
OBU’s Geiger Center evacuated after delivery of ‘suspicious’ package
SHAWNEE, Okla. (BP)--Dining services, as well as several other university services and building functions, were relocated or temporarily closed Oct. 30 as a precaution at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee after a package bearing a "suspicious, off-white powdery substance" was found in the mailroom in the university's Geiger Center.
