Tim Palmer

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo. (BP)–Let’s say God lays it on your heart to help fathers do a better job of raising their children. But these fathers are a bunch of procrastinators and suspicious. What do you do? You take aim at the procrastination part by getting dads to commit to an activity with their sons and […]

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (BP)–Messengers to the annual meeting of Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Baptist Association voted Sept. 29 to withdraw fellowship from First Baptist Church, Cape Girardeau, Mo., over the ordination of six women as deacons earlier this year. Moderator Glen Golden, pastor of First Baptist Church of Delta, said messengers voted 98-41 to remove First […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)–Baptists in Missouri are being urged to oppose a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would legalize casino gambling in “boats in moats.” The Missouri Baptist Convention executive board approved unanimously July 14 a resolution opposing efforts to expand casino gambling beyond riverboats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The executive […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)–A resolution to seek an increase in participation of racial minorities on Missouri Baptist Convention-related boards and commissions has been adopted by the convention’s executive board. Board member Michael Haynes, pastor of First Baptist Church, North Kansas City, presented the “resolution on racial inclusion” during the board’s April 13-14 meeting at the […]

WASHINGTON (BP)–Roy Blunt views serving in the United States House of Representatives from a historian’s perspective. Which isn’t surprising, since he has two degrees in history and has taught the subject to high school and college students. “This is a great time to be in Congress,” Blunt, a former Baptist college president, said recently in […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)–James L. “Jim” Hill, pastor of South County Baptist Church in St. Louis, is the new executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, effective Jan. 1. The MBC executive board elected Hill Nov. 24 in a special called meeting at the Baptist Building in Jefferson City. The vote among the 45 board […]

WASHINGTON (BP)–Noon Friday, Oct. 3, near the huge stage on the east end of the Mall in Washington, D.C. There are no strangers among the hundreds of thousands of Christian brothers who have come to Washington, D.C., to “Stand In The Gap.” LeRoy Landhuis of Colorado Springs, Colo., chats with a new friend. Landhuis, a […]

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (BP)–Growing up near Murfreesboro, Tenn., in the 1930s and ’40s, Don Rutledge saw racial segregation almost everywhere he looked. Except when he looked in the mirror. “There was just something, some way, that it didn’t make sense at all that you would distrust somebody or hate somebody just on the color of their […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Already a twice-published novelist, John Howard Griffin began writing for magazines in the 1950s, including Sepia, which was geared to a black audience. One day, Griffin was talking to an editor at Sepia — a black woman — about regular news reports of college-educated black men committing suicide over their inability to […]

ARNOLD, Mo. (BP)–As an only child, Brittany McFarland for most of her 22 years never experienced the joys, the blessings and the other stuff that comes with having brothers and/or sisters. Apparently, God did not want her to miss out on the experience entirely. At the first of the year, Brittany joined MissionsUSA Live — […]