WASHINGTON (ABP) — Melissa Rogers, former general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and current professor at Baptist-related Wake Forest Divinity School, recently finished serving as the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood…
Analysis: Obama council report partial victory for church-state separation
President Obama greets and thanks members of the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during a drop-by in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 9. (White House Photo by Pete Souza) WASHINGTON (ABP) — After a…
Baptist school coach, principal charged with sexual assault
SHERWOOD, Ark. (ABP) — A coach and principal at a Baptist-sponsored Christian school in Arkansas pleaded not guilty March 23 to a charge of sexually assaulting a former student. Tim Ballard Tim Ballard, 39, who is free from jail on…
Longtime Arkansas BSU worker, CBF leader Tom Logue dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Tom Logue, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, died March 6 after an illness. Tom…
Longtime BSU worker, CBF leader Tom Logue dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Tom Logue, who led Baptist Student Union work in Arkansas for more than three decades and in retirement was founding coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas, died March 6 after an illness. Logue,…
Gaddy urges textbook publishers to ignore new Texas standards
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Baptist preacher who leads a national progressive interfaith organization has written leading publishers around the country to urge them to reject changes made to standards for teaching about social studies, history and economics in Texas. Welton…
Pastors to preach barefoot to raise awareness of the global need for shoes
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Pastors to preach barefoot in honor of MLK
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Pastors to go barefoot on Easter to raise awareness about shoelessness
ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…
Church health center installs former Virginia Baptist leader as president
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A parade of friends and colleagues from past ministries helped to install Bill Wilson March 18 as second president of the Center for Congregational Health during a service at United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C….
Baugh Foundation awards ABP $125,000 grant, matching challenge
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) – Associated Baptist Press has been given a $125,000 grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation for its 2010 operating budget. The award from the Texas-based charity includes $75,000 earmarked as a “matching challenge gift”…
Abortion opponents disagree on health-care bill’s pro-life credentials
WASHINGTON (ABP) — As the clock ticks down to a final, dramatic March 21 House vote on the Senate version of the health-care-reform bill, pro-life leaders are feuding over whether the bill’s abortion provisions maintain the status quo or represent…