TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — They've picketed high schools, military funerals and even the Southern Baptist Convention with their controversial message that God hates homosexuals. Now members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., have chosen a new target — Santa…
Anti-gay church’s Santa protest latest part of Washington holiday ‘circus’
TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — They've picketed high schools, military funerals and even the Southern Baptist Convention with their controversial message that God hates homosexuals. Now members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., have chosen a new target — Santa…
Kentucky Baptist paper names editor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Kentucky Baptists have tapped veteran denominational journalist Todd Deaton to become the next editor of their historic newspaper, the Western Recorder. Newly appointed Western Recorder Editor Todd Deaton interacted with mission board members prior to his affirmation…
Ky. church, in Advent tradition, remembers homicide victims
Members of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., mark the second Sunday of Advent by placing crosses on their church lawn to remember victims of violence. (Photo by Bill Campbell) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Sixty-five crosses dot the front lawn…
‘True Woman’ movement seeks counter-revolution to feminism
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A group of conservative Christian women is seeking 100,000 signatures on a "True Woman Manifesto" aimed at sparking a counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s. Introduced at a gathering of more than 6,000 women…
President Bush discusses faith in TV interview
WASHINGTON (ABP) — In a television interview broadcast Dec. 8, President Bush said he doesn't know if God wanted him to be president, doubts the Bible is literally true, agrees you can believe in God and evolution simultaneously and believes Christians and…
Mo. appeals court hears latest round in Windermere dispute
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Both sides in the legal dispute between the Missouri Baptist Convention and a breakaway agency faced tough questions at a recent hearing before an appellate panel. The Nov. 25 argument in the Missouri Court of Appeals for the…
Christian leaders urge Obama to make Israeli-Palestinian peace top priority
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A group of Christian leaders in the United States has called on President-elect Barack Obama to make the Israeli-Palestinian peace process an immediate priority during his first year in office. Leaders from a broad spectrum of American…
Russian Baptists mourn death of Orthodox leader
MOSCOW (ABP) — A Russian Baptist leader praised Patriarch Alexey II of the Russian Orthodox Church, who died Dec. 5, as a creator of “peace and consensus” during the post-communist and post-Soviet years in Russia. The Russian Union of Evangelical…
Richard Land compares President Bush to Harry Truman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A prominent Southern Baptist leader has compared George W. Bush to Harry Truman, another president whose approval ratings dropped to the 20s in his final months in office but is now considered one of the greatest…
Studies show rise in greenhouse gases in 2007
ATLANTA (ABP) — Greenhouse-gas emissions continued to rise in 2007, according to two new studies. But Southern Baptists are still divided over what, if anything, to do about it. The World Meteorological Organisation said Nov. 26 that concentrations of carbon…
Guest opinion: The caboose of Christianity
(ABP) — We all have our blind spots. Clarity often comes only from the perspective of hindsight. That’s what leaders of Bob Jones University confessed in apologizing for the independent, fundamentalist Christian school’s past racist policies. A statement on the…