Deep water dilemma: Can Baptists agree on baptism? (Shurden quotes)
Baptists -- always a diverse lot -- increasingly take a variety of stances when it comes to baptism and church membership.
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.
Uzbekistan fines Baptists for meeting without a license
OSLO, Norway (ABP) -- Thirteen members of an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan have been fined 100 times the nation's minimum monthly salary, an international news service that tracks stories about abuses of religious freedom reported March 15.
Television program profiles friendships between Muslims, Baptists
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- One thing Muslims and Baptists have in common is they are often identified by their extremists, according to a documentary airing on ABC television stations in January and February.
Baptists worldwide take low-key approach to religious-liberty concerns
Baptists generally prefer to handle violations of religious freedom through quiet diplomacy instead of media headlines denouncing “persecution” of Christians, said a freedom-and-justice specialist for the Baptist World Alliance.
Russian Baptists schedule historic rally with Orthodox, Catholics
MOSCOW (ABP) -- An Oct. 15 meeting between high-level representatives of Russia’s Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox communities resulted in the scheduling of a historic multi-confessional Christian rally for early next year, according to a Russian Baptist press release.
Baptists appeal for aid after typhoon hits Southeast Asia
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- Baptists in the Philippines are appealing to the global Baptist community for donations as they gear up for relief efforts in the wake of a Sept. 26 typhoon that has killed 300 people there and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Baptists support separation of church and state, but not all agree what it means
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At 400 years, theological distinctions define, divide Baptists
Some of the same theological disputes that divided Baptists throughout their first 400 years continue to distinguish different branches of the Baptist family tree in the early years of the 21st century, theologian James Leo Garrett said.
Baptists urged to remember their roots, consider risks of ‘majoritarian faith’
Baptists in the United States—who find themselves members of a religious majority or plurality in many areas—would do well to remember their humble beginnings as a persecuted minority and to reconsider the dangers of a “majoritarian faith,” Baptist scholar Doug Weaver urged at a recent