DALLAS (ABP) — A volcanic ash cloud that caused a $1 billion disruption to international airline travel has also forced a Texas Baptist choir to postpone by six months its concert tour in Ukraine. The North Central Texas chapter of…
Moderate Baptist leader Cecil Sherman dies
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Cecil Sherman, 82, one of the most visible moderate leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and first coordinator of the breakaway Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died April 17 from complications of a heart…
Moderate Baptist leader Cecil Sherman dies
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Cecil Sherman, 82, one of the most visible moderate leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and first coordinator of the breakaway Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died April 17 from complications of a heart…
Judge rules National Day of Prayer unconstitutional
MADISON, Wis. (ABP) — A federal judge has found a National Day of Prayer mandated by Congress unconstitutional, saying it violates the separation of church and state. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin ruled April…
Founding CBF Coordinator Cecil Sherman suffers massive heart attack
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Cecil Sherman, former Cooperative Baptist Fellowship national coordinator, suffered a massive heart attack April 15, and is currently in critical condition in Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. Sherman's daughter, Eugenia Sherman Brown, described…
Benjamin Hooks, civil-rights icon and Baptist minister, dead at 85
Benjamin Hooks MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Civil-rights icon and Baptist minister Benjamin Hooks died April 15 in Memphis, Tenn. He was 85. The former executive director of the NAACP was pastor of Greater Middle Baptist Church in Memphis for…
Russia adoption controversy hasn’t affected Buckner program
DALLAS – Officials at Buckner International say the recent political furor over a news report about a mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia on a one-way flight has not affected the group’s “Angels from Abroad” orphan hosting…
Mohler equates ‘seductive’ post-modern preaching, liberalism
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary president recently warned pastors and other church leaders about "postmodern" preachers whose sermons sound biblical but who don't believe the Bible is literally true. Albert Mohler Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist…
Author describes what having an autistic child taught her about God
CINCINNATI (ABP) — Now a nationally recognized author and speaker in the field of disability ministry, Kathleen Deyer Bolduc says she was unprepared to parent a special-needs child before the birth of her third son. Now 24, Joel has autism,…