ATLANTA (ABP) — Sixteen women leaders from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship just returned from a two-week trip to China, where they visited women leaders of the church in China and CBF representatives in Lanzhou, Chengdu, Nanning and Macau. The trip…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — On the heels of a Purdue University study that listed Baptists as the most obese religious group in America, Baptist-affiliated Baylor University has been recognized as one of America's fittest schools. The study, published in the…

A growing number of Christian writers are embracing the idea that the United States is moving into a post-Christendom phase and that the church should not resist this transition. This has significant implications for the very hotly debated question of…

DALLAS (ABP) — Yom Kippur, the most sober and holy day of the Jewish year, was Oct. 2. To celebrate, Jews around the world fasted, prayed and attended synagogue. In Israel, public transportation and airports were closed, along with banks,…

DALLAS (ABP) — Yom Kippur, the most sober and holy day of the Jewish year, was Oct. 2. To celebrate, Jews around the world fasted, prayed and attended synagogue. In Israel, public transportation and airports were closed, along with banks,…

PHOENIX (ABP) — Two former executives of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were sentenced to jail and told to pay millions in restitution Sept. 29 in what may be the nation's largest case of faith-based financial fraud. Maricopa County, Ariz.,…

DALLAS (ABP) — Worshippers hear them speak each Sunday, and a steady stream of people visit them each week. But for many pastors, ministry makes a lonely life. Though they often relate well to large groups of people on many…

BUIES CREEK, N.C. (ABP) — It was 1943 when Leslie Campbell plucked 18-year-old Diamond Johnson Matthews out of Mabel Powell's English class to be his secretary. The son of Campbell University founder James Archibald Campbell, he needed a bright presidential…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An organization once synonymous with the Religious Right in the United States has named as president a pastor who is becoming known as a critic of the Religious Right. The Christian Coalition announced Oct. 1 it had…

NASHVILLE (ABP) — Forty-three member institutions of the International Baptist Association of Colleges and Universities were listed among the nation's best in a survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report. The number of IABCU member schools ranked in the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congressional negotiators have nixed an effort to create a right for military chaplains to offer sectarian prayers in settings where soldiers of many faiths may be present. However, the last-minute compromise Sept. 29 between House and Senate…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just before returning home for a month of campaigning prior to the Nov. 7 midterm elections, the Senate blocked a controversial House-passed abortion bill that social conservatives had pushed at the last minute. Late the evening of…