ATLANTA (ABP) — Retired high-ranking military officers and national security experts at a national summit on torture Sept. 11 agreed: A policy that permits torture does not make the United States or its troops safer. Steve Xenakis, a…
Legislators call faith leaders to focus on poverty issues
WASHINGTON (ABP) — “Poverty has been forgotten, and it has been ignored for too long,” declared Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) Sept. 9. DeLauro and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) were featured speakers in a teleconference with reporters to kick off a…
David Wilkinson to become ABP’s executive director
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Veteran Baptist communicator David Wilkinson has been named executive director for Associated Baptist Press. David Wilkinson Wilkinson, who currently serves as development director for the Baylor University School of Social Work, will replace current ABP Executive…
Chaplain’s ‘general store’ eases ministry to soldiers
SHARANA, Afghanistan (ABP) — Chaplain Everett Zachary is happy to help provide at least some of the comforts of home to soldiers in unfamiliar Afghanistan through his “general store.” Following 16-hour shifts, soldiers take solace in the tokens of domestic…
Dellanna O’Brien, former
WMU head, dies at 75
FRISCO, Texas (ABP)—Dellanna West O’Brien, who led the Southern Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union through some of its most trying times, died Sept. 7 at age 75. Dellanna O’Brien She suffered what WMU officials described as “a massive cerebral bleed” Sept. 4…
Attacks on Obama, picking Palin rally conservative base at RNC
ST. PAUL, Minn. (ABP) — John McCain completed a long journey to the GOP presidential nomination Sept. 4, capping an abbreviated Republican convention that offered attacks on his Democratic rival, but little talk of divisive social issues. Nonetheless, the Arizona…
NAMB sells former RTVC building to energy company
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — The last vestige of a Southern Baptist Convention broadcast ministry that once had garnered an Emmy Award has been sold. Chesapeake Energy Co. purchased the 87,966-square-foot building that housed the former Southern Baptist Radio and…
Baptists continue Gustav relief with wary eyes on Hanna, Ike
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Baptists continued to respond Sept. 4 to needs throughout the south-central part of the country in response to Hurricane Gustav and its windy, drenching aftermath. The storm made landfall Sept. 1 between Grand Isle and Houma,…
Fuller Seminary professor David Scholer dies at 70
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) — David Scholer, noted American Baptist scholar and professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, died Aug. 22 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 70. Scholer was a specialist in several areas of New…
Baptists active in wake of Hurricane Gustav
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Although Hurricane Gustav apparently was much less of a disaster than 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Baptists have mobilized throughout the Gulf Coast region to provide a wide array of disaster-aid services. From churches hosting evacuees to chainsaw…
Baptists active in wake
of Hurricane Gustav
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Although Hurricane Gustav apparently was much less of a disaster than 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Baptists have mobilized throughout the Gulf Coast region to provide a wide array of disaster-aid services. From churches hosting evacuees to chainsaw…
Believers minister to delegates, law enforcement during DNC
DENVER (ABP) — Baptists were among the many Christian groups who ministered to the delegates, journalists and others who flocked to the Democratic National Convention in Denver Aug. 24-29. And while the impact of the political event will culminate Nov….