Les Puryear

Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Les Puryear, pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) during the SBC's June 10-11 annual meeting in Indianapolis, Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, announced May 12.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - One week after an effort to oust 71 members of Two Rivers Baptist Church failed by four votes, the Nashville megachurch voted again and this time removed the dissidents on a show-of-hands vote.

NEW ORLEANS - The emerging church movement, much like postmodernism, is too diverse for easy definition, with participants scattered along a lengthy continuum, Ed Stetzer told a Baptist College Partnership meeting at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dottie Rambo speaks to the Gospel Music Association in 2001 when The Rambos were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Photo by Morris Abernathy

Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gospel music legend Dottie Rambo died early May 11 when her tour bus veered from a Missouri highway and struck an embankment.

NEW YORK - C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" book series is so revered by Christian readers that adapting the books into film becomes a delicate tightrope. Changes risk alienating fans, but what works in the books doesn't always translate well to the big screen.