To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports this week from The Baptist Paper, see below.
1. Lucy Pat Curl died Wednesday morning (Feb. 5). Curl served alongside her husband, Bill, who served in pastoral care ministry at First Baptist Church Orlando, and the couple previously served with the International Mission Board.
2. Texas executed Steven Nelson on Feb. 5 for the 2011 murder of Clint Dobson, pastor of NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.
3. “Baptist associations represent the best of the early Christian movement,” writes George Bullard. “For the Baptist movement to thrive, the character, nature and missional engagement of associations must lead the movement.”
4. On National Girls & Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
5. Gloo, the technology platform for the faith ecosystem, announced the acquisition of Faith Assistant (previously Bible Chat). The artificial intelligence-based assistant helps publishers engage their people through conversational AI, trained on the ministry’s own content.
6. Located just three blocks from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, members of Proclamation Community Church are feeling the weight and impact of a devastating plane crash that claimed the lives of seven individuals, including an 11-year-old pediatric patient and her mother,
EDITOR’S NOTE: — These stories were compiled by The Baptist Paper, with reporting from Baptist Press, Texas’ Baptist Standard, George Bullard, Evangelical Press Association, Baptist Resource Network of Pennsylvania/South Jersey.