Comics from 2016

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Attorneys for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and board chair Danny Roberts have filed for dismissal in a case brought by former president Adam Greenway.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Grammy Award-winning contemporary Christian singer Mandisa Lynn Hundley, a former Lifeway Christian Resources employee and top-10 American Idol finisher, was found dead April 18 at her Nashville home, her publicist announced on social media.

ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) – Friends, alumni, faculty, students and trustees gathered Tuesday, April 16, to honor Jeff Iorg for his tenure as president of Gateway Seminary and to commission him for service at the SBC Executive Committee.

MATHIS, Texas (BP) - El pastor Félix Treviño conocía la métrica que dice que una iglesia saludable debe tener un bautismo al año por cada 15 personas en asistencia promedio al culto, pero la Primera Iglesia Bautista de Mathis simplemente no estaba viendo a Dios moverse de esa manera.

LENEXA, Kansas (BP) – Steve Dighton nominará a David Crowther para servir como primer vicepresidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la Reunión Anual de la SBC de 2024. Crowther es pastor de Immanuel Baptist Church en Wichita.

ONTARIO, Calif. – En una votación unánime el lunes 15 de abril, los directivos de Gateway eligieron a Adam Groza como octavo presidente del Seminario Gateway durante su reunión de primavera de 2024. Su cargo comienza el 13 de mayo.

SEYMOUR, Tenn. (BP) – Dan Spencer, pastor sénior de First Baptist Church de Sevierville, Tennessee, se ha convertido en el sexto candidato a la presidencia de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la Reunión Anual de la SBC de 2024 en Indianápolis.

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College trustees approved faculty changes, received positive academic and financial reports, and welcomed a donation of items of historical value from the family of W.W. Hamilton, the school’s second president.

The 20th century political anarchist Edward Abbey loved the desert and once observed, “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.” Abbey was not the only person who discovered intimacy in the solitude of the desert. The same could be said for some of the most influential people of prayer mentioned in Scripture. God originally created man in a garden, but He frequently recreates them in a desert.