Baptist Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind.  — Cecil W. Seagle will end five years of service as executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana on Dec. 16. Seagle, 76, made the announcement during the opening session of the SCBI Executive Board’s Aug. 15-16 meeting at the Indiana convention’s Highland Lakes Baptist Camp in Martinsville. Seagle was elected as SCBI executive director on Nov. 1, 2011, after serving eight months

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — A New York Times op-ed suggesting the Old Testament supports transgenderism has been classified by Southern Baptist seminary professors as a mischaracterization of Hebrew grammar and theology. “It should not surprise any of us that if we want to find something in Scripture, then we will twist it to say what we want it to say,” Paul Wegner, professor of Old Testament

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press CLEVELAND, Tenn. (BP) — On the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, Southern Baptists are being urged to join hundreds of thousands of Christians from many denominations and ethnicities in praying for a Christian awakening in the nation. The Sept. 11 Cry Out America prayer outreach of the Awakening America Alliance and Center for Spiritual Renewal, an 8-year-old cooperative initiative encompassing

By David Roach Baptist Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) — With Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore set to stand trial next month on charges he defied federal court rulings on same-sex marriage, a legal adviser to Alabama Baptists’ public policy auxiliary has called the allegations against him unmerited. At issue in Moore’s case is a Jan. 6 administrative order in which he stated Alabama’s 68 probate judges had “a ministerial duty

Baptist Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Suffering third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body, Alaska Baptist evangelism and church growth director Jimmy Stewart is hospitalized and grateful for prayers after being injured in a gas leak explosion at his Alaska cabin. Stewart underwent his fourth surgery Aug. 3 — one of many anticipated in a hospitalization of at least six months followed by convalescence and a lengthy rehabilitation, according to