(ABP) — This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior: Step 1 We admitted we were powerless over our…
Road to Recovery: Churches help with overcoming addictions
COMANCHE, Texas (ABP) — Terry Walker fell to his knees in the shower stall of a South Texas substance-abuse-treatment center, crying out to God for release from the chains of addiction. “God blessed me with the gift of desperation,” Walker…
Churches affected by FCC changes on wireless-microphone frequencies
DESOTO, Texas (ABP) — While the digitization of television signals June 12 garnered wide publicity, many churches were left unaware their wireless microphone systems also were affected. The Federal Communications Commission auctioned off the lower half of the 700-megahertz band…
Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck
SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — A church-bus crash that killed one teenager and critically injured another July 12 could have been worse if a transport bus carrying National Guard soldiers had not come upon the accident scene nearly immediately, according to…
Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck of church bus
SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — A church-bus crash that killed one teenager and critically injured another July 12 could have been worse if a transport bus carrying National Guard soldiers had not come upon the accident scene nearly immediately, according to…
Church bus headed toward Passport overturns, killing teen
MERIDIAN, Miss. (ABP) — One youth was reported dead and a busload of teenagers and adult sponsors injured when a bus carrying them flipped en route to a youth camp sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship partner ministry Passport. A…
Obama to nominate prominent Christian geneticist to head NIH
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The White House announced July 8 that President Obama would tap a prominent Christian geneticist to a top government post. Obama announced that he would nominate Francis Collins, one of the world’s most famous thinkers on the relationship…
Saddleback removes audio clip saying abuse no excuse for divorce
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — A senior staff member of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, quoted earlier this year as teaching the Bible does not permit a woman to divorce an abusive husband, has said the audio clip containing the comment…
Episcopal presiding bishop terms individualistic salvation ‘heresy’
ANAHEIM, Calif. (ABP) — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church called the evangelical notion that individuals can be right with God a "great Western heresy" that is behind many problems facing the church and the wider society. Describing a…
Broadway Baptist Church youth choir detours through Nashville
Youth from Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth paint house in Nashville, Tenn. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Fernia Harris of Nashville, Tenn., got a special surprise on her birthday July 8. A group of teenagers from Broadway Baptist Church…
Broadway Baptist Church youth choir detours through Nashville
Youth from Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth paint house in Nashville, Tenn. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Fernia Harris of Nashville, Tenn., got a special surprise on her birthday July 8. A group of teenagers from Broadway Baptist Church…
News analysis: Houston, we have a Baptist problem
HOUSTON (ABP) — This summer marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention’s “conservative resurgence” — a movement by strident fundamentalists to rescue a denomination they viewed as going astray. Eighteen years ago many of the…