WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Melissa Rogers, former general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and current professor at Baptist-related Wake Forest Divinity School, recently finished serving as the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Below are her responses,
SHERWOOD, Ark. (ABP) -- A coach and principal at a Baptist-sponsored Christian school in Arkansas pleaded not guilty March 23 to a charge of sexually assaulting a former student.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) -- Tom Logue, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, died March 6 after an illness.
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist preacher who leads a national interfaith organization has written leading publishers around the country to urge them to reject changes made to standards for teaching about social studies, history and economics in Texas.
ATLANTA (ABP) -- As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than 300 million people around the
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- A Nigerian Baptist leader says politics is the driving force behind recent religious massacres and riots in central Nigeria.
DIDCOT, England (ABP) -- Churches, by and large, still haven’t entered the digital age when it comes to evangelism -- but those who have are reaping huge rewards, according to a new survey.
Touched by the trauma children still face in the aftermath of the recent earthquake, women at First Baptist Church, Gray Summit, create gifts to send to Haiti.
What does Christianity look like in a country where over 90 percent of the population is Buddhist? Central
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Celebrate Easter by starting earlierA back issue of Word&Way -- about 50 years back -- reported on the subject of whether Baptists needed to observe Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter. The consensus among pastors and other workers who responded was that Southern Baptists did not need |