In an overview of a seven-year study, the University of California at Los Angeles' Higher Education Research Institute concluded: "It is our shared belief that the findings provide a powerful argument for the proposition that higher education should attend more to students' spiritual development, because
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Everyone has a vested interest in the effective education of children. Both Christian and public schools have the potential to do it well. In education, children's success should be everyone's goal.
Although Ernesto Chicas didn't live to see it, his vision for a church in Tecoluca, El Salvador, took a step forward on Aug. 7 when about 20-25 people gathered for Bible study.
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Against a background of mounting anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, Baptist and other religious leaders spoke out Aug. 30 against Islamophobia and urged federal officials to take a more proactive role in safeguarding Muslims’ civil rights.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) -- Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina solicited urgent prayer Aug. 27 for a Hispanic pastor facing possible deportation for a 15-year-old crime he committed before accepting Christ.
Challenges to Baptist higher education are prompting insiders to reassess what it means to be a distinctively “Baptist” institution of higher learning.
Following a recent service at our church, a visitor tripped over a curb. She maintained to people around her that she was all right but then asked for an ambulance to carry her two and a half blocks to the hospital. By the late afternoon,
Religious leaders and civil rights advocates have signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, pressing the Department of Justice to implement national standards to help prevent an estimated 60,000 cases of prison rape each year.
HOUSTON (ABP) -- A Baptist church in Texas braved near-100 degree heat Aug. 21 to set the new Guinness World Record for the longest chain of shoes.