WASHINGTON (ABP) — Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor — at the center of one of the biggest religious controversies in presidential-campaign history — culminated a four-day media blitz April 28 with a combination of erudition and combativeness. “This is not…
Baptist communicators big winners in ecumenical awards competition
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist communicators garnered several awards from an ecumenical awards competition for religious journalists and public-relations professionals. Three of the 10 best-in-class prizes at the recent Religion Communicators Council DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards contest went to Baptist professionals. Scott Camp,…
Chistian credit union pledges $232,000 to support ABC workers, Thai villages
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) –The ministry of two American Baptist Churches missionaries to underdeveloped Thai villages will be undergirded with a $232,500 gift from Christian Community Credit Union. According to the American Baptist News Service, the nationwide Christian banking group's…
‘God is still in control’ despite tornado, Tennessee pastor says
ETHRIDGE, Tenn. (ABP) – Members of Liberty Hill Baptist Church are mourning the loss of their church building to a tornado but celebrating signs of new birth. Just two days after a tornado ripped through Giles and Lawrence counties April…
Obama’s controversial pastor submits to first TV interview
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Pastor Jeremiah Wright, who became a household name recently after video snippets of his sermons created a stir on the Internet and a headache for his most famous parishioner, is defending himself in an interview scheduled to…
Olive wood brings prosperity to CBF-backed microenterprise
ATLANTA (ABP) — For centuries, the olive branch has been a symbol of peace in Judeo-Christian cultures — and now olive wood is bringing prosperity through a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-sponsored microenterprise project in the Middle East. “Elizabeth” is one of…
Opinion: Our theology of ecology should place us within creation
(ABP) — During the most recent Earth Day April 22, Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection ran high-profile TV ads in which Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi, and then Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, sat together on couches telling the…
Catholics, other religious voters propel Clinton to victory in Pa.
PHILADELPHIA (ABP) — Religious voters — especially the state’s all-important Catholic population — appear to have given New York Sen. Hillary Clinton a big boost in the crucial April 22 Pennsylvania primary. But most religious Catholics and most religious Protestants…
Corrections
Please make the following corrections in the April 22 ABP release. In the opinion column “Discipleship and the ‘outside world,'” please change “dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School” in the 4th paragraph to “president of the Chicago Theological…
Sudanese Baptists reunite after years-long division
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — After years of division precipitated by one of history's deadliest civil wars, Sudanese Baptists have finally — like their nation — reunited. The reunification of the Sudan Interior Church North and the Sudan Interior Church…
Opinion: Discipleship and the ‘outside world’
(ABP) — Quite by coincidence, I had just finished reading Carolyn Jessup's Escape when the news stories broke about the raids on the Texas ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. The “escape” of the book's title is…
Rival Mo. conservative groups agree to ‘peace committee’
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Seven members of rival conservative groups in the Missouri Baptist Convention will go to mediation in an effort to bring about peace within the battle-torn statewide group. The MBC Executive Board voted on April 15…