Music into manna: symphony concert benefits church’s hunger ministry
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) -- A free concert at a Texas Baptist church turned into a blessing for the city's hungry and homeless.
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood unimpressed by new NIV
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- A group that criticized the New International Version Bible translation for introducing a gender-inclusive edition in 2005 says it isn't satisfied by revisions in the latest edition recently available online.
Q and A: U.S. Rep-elect James Lankford (R-Okla.)
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- James Lankford is typical of the many outsider conservative Republican candidates elected to Congress during the recent midterm elections. Elected to the House of Representatives from Oklahoma’s 5th District, he unexpectedly beat several more experienced opponents in the
Baptist historian, college president Morgan Patterson dies
NOVATO, Calif. (ABP) -- Morgan Patterson, a historian who taught at four Southern Baptist seminaries and was president of a Baptist college, died Nov. 19 at age 85 at his home in Novato. Calif. He had been treated for pancreatic cancer.
North Carolina mega-church pastor retiring
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) -- The senior pastor of North Carolina's largest Southern Baptist church announced Nov. 21 he is retiring after 26 years.
County, church settle lawsuit over Christian school
BALTIMORE (ABP) -- A Maryland county will pay a Baptist church $3.25 million and allow construction of a Christian school that government officials have opposed for eight years under terms of a settlement reached Nov. 18 in federal court.
NAMB executive, former MBC staff member to become editor of Ark. Baptist paper
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Arab Christian: Bad eschatology harms U.S. Christians
KELLER, Texas (ABP) -- Theology that equates the modern state of Israel with the Israel of biblical prophecy has caused some evangelical Christians to let eschatology trump ethics when it comes to the Middle East, a Palestinian-American Christian told a recent interfaith
Baptist editor in Oklahoma resigns
OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) -- The editor of Oklahoma Baptists' news journal has resigned after just more than 15 months on the job.
Os Guinness: Civility needed in global public square
KELLER, Texas (ABP) — In an increasingly connected world where “religion is furiously alive,” the matter of how people of faith can live with their deep differences assumes growing importance, social critic and author Os Guinness told a Texas Baptist congregation's recent