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Christians need ‘moral imagination’ to ease global warming, Cizik says

ABILENE, Texas (ABP) — “Premillenial pessimism” and blind allegiance to politicians backed by oil companies contribute to evangelicals' relative silence about the threat of global warming, said Richard Cizik, the National Association for Evangelicals' vice president for governmental affairs. In…

Energy-efficient churches have more money for ministry

WALKERTOWN, N.C. (ABP) — Churches are becoming concerned about how the way they run their facilities affects the environment — and the energy behind that green-consciousness is coming from the inside. In some cases, business people within the congregation have…

Some Episcopal bishops unsatisfied with ‘lukewarm’ New Orleans statement

NEW YORK (ABP) — Leaders of the Episcopal Church in the United States voted overwhelmingly Sept. 24 to continue working toward unity with the worldwide Anglican Communion, despite years of infighting and threats of schism over homosexuality and other issues….

California church leaders question IRS investigation into war sermon

PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) — The Internal Revenue Service has informed a progressive California church that it will not be sanctioned for an anti-war sermon preached there in 2004 — but church leaders are asking for an apology for an investigation…

Midwestern Seminary factions reportedly square off in battle over president’s fate

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Leaders of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary are reportedly squaring off in a struggle over the school's president, Phil Roberts. Roberts' stewardship of the Kansas City, Mo.-based institution is the subject of a tug-of-war between seminary…

Thomas Corts named coordinator of Bush’s education initiative

NEW YORK (ABP) — Thomas Corts, executive director of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities and former president of Samford University, has been named to a new position related to President Bush's international education initiatives. Corts will be…

Mission to Unreached Peoples names Kent Parks international director

DALLAS (ABP) — Kent Parks, a 20-year veteran of Baptist mission service in Southeast Asia, will become international director of Mission to Unreached Peoples, effective November 1. Parks, 50, will establish an international office in Dallas, Texas, and will work…

BWA president Coffey in Lebanon shortly after lawmaker’s assassination

BEIRUT, Lebanon (ABP) — The president of the Baptist World Alliance is touring Lebanon and the Middle East in the wake of an assassination of a Lebanese Parliament member and continued unrest in the tumultuous region. David Coffey arrived in…

Opinion: Keeping complementarians true to Scripture

My professional pilgrimage has been marked by a sometimes painful series of movements between Christian academic institutions falling on opposite sides of the gender issue, or what has come to be called the complementarian/egalitarian divide. This has given me opportunity…