AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University theology professor Barry Harvey took just two texts to a church's recent seminar on reconciling faith and science: the Bible and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. “Far too often, [discussing faith and science] generates…

(ABP) — Sermons on forgiveness often emphasize the Lord’s Prayer — “and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” But should Christians always forgive, regardless of circumstances? Is granting forgiveness always appropriate? “Yes — but…”…

Chris Carrier was abducted at age 8, assaulted and left for dead in the Florida Everglades. Chris not only survived the ordeal, but 22 years later, he told his attacker he was forgiven and lead the man to faith in…

TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) — Investigators said Jan. 29 that a fire that gutted the historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Temple, Texas, on Jan. 19 was set deliberately. The case is now being treated as a criminal investigation. The…

MIAMI (ABP) — Despite crackdowns from the National Football League in recent years that frightened many church leaders into abandoning watch parties for America’s biggest sporting event, experts say churches are free to host viewings of Super Bowl XLIV on…

TOCCOA, Ga. (ABP) — The widow of a Baptist pastor killed last September in a botched drug arrest has sent notice that she intends to sue the city of Toccoa, Ga., and/or a three-county narcotics-enforcement unit involved in his shooting….

HERTFORD, N.C. (ABP) — A Baptist association in North Carolina has hired an interim replacement for a camp director arrested last summer on molestation charges. Chowan Baptist Association has employed Matt Thomas, pastor of Riverside Baptist Church in Elizabeth City,…

AMARILLO, Texas (ABP) — One Baptist congregation is putting ministry to the hurting in another part of the world ahead of its own financial woes. Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas, gave $63,100 to Texas Baptist Men for disaster-relief work…