Black pastor says he doesn’t plan to run for SBC president
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) -- A Louisiana pastor says he has no plans to be nominated as the Southern Baptist Convention's first African-American president this summer in Orlando, Fla.
Pastor says it is time for Southern Baptists to elect a black president
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- A prominent African-American pastor says it is time for the Southern Baptist Convention to elect its first black president.
Tipton churches prayerwalk the town
Several churches in Tipton joined members of First Baptist Church to pray for every home, business, school and church in town on March 6.
Missouri Christians must turn to God for budget answers
Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, called
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God’s purpose lies in resurrection, unity
William Shaw, two-time president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, called messengers and guests at the Baptist General Convention of Missouri annual meeting to focus on Jesus as the kingdom’s attraction and the unity of Christian purpose.
Laughter is the holiest medicine
The Christian faith has a powerful joke — Easter. Early church theologians proclaimed that it represented "God's supreme joke played on death" and used the phrase Risus paschalis, "the Easter laugh." Over the centuries, the week after Easter became associated with "days of joy and
After Easter, be more like Jesus
The highest holy day of the year for Christians is a mere three days away. Christians will rightfully celebrate God’s sacrifice in the death of His Son on a ghastly cross. We will remember His death reverently and soberly. But we also will rejoice
Longtime theology professor David Mueller dies
SAN ANTONIO (ABP) -- A second-generation Baptist theologian who taught during three decades at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary died March 26 in Texas.
Conservative Baptist activist Nancy Schaefer dies
CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) -- Nancy Schaefer, a conservative Christian activist and former two-term state senator in Georgia, was found dead with her husband March 26 in their north Georgia home in what is being described as a murder-suicide.
Christian leaders from political left, right call for civility amid discourse
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Even as Democratic members of Congress report death threats over their votes in favor of health-care reform and a prominent conservative broadcaster continues his attacks on a left-leaning evangelical leader for advocating social justice, a group of Christian