North Carolina Colleges Cutting Baptist Ties

Five North Carolina Baptist colleges and universities are moving toward loosening ties with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. A convention committee earlier this month signed off on a proposal from the schools to elect their own trustees, give up $6.2...

Unsafe Harbors

North Carolina Baptists have trumped Missourians over who can exclude whom. A few weeks ago, the Missouri Baptist Convention dismissed 19 churches from its ranks for not being exclusively (singly) aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention. Meanwhile, the Baptist...

North Carolina Exec Moving to Pastorate

The executive director for North Carolina Baptists, who assumed his post in 1997 with goals of reconciling moderates and conservatives, is retiring at age 57 to return to the pastorate. Jim Royston, top administrator for the 4,000-church Baptist State Convention of...

North Carolina CBF Leader Hopes Group Will Rally Moderates

The newly elected leader of North Carolina Cooperative Baptist Fellowship hopes to make the chapter a more viable alternative for moderates torn between denominational politics and cooperation. North Carolina moderates met in January to discuss options after a failed...