NEW YORK (ABP) (ABP) — The Church of England recently issued a statement identifying organ donation — even by living donors — as a Christian duty motivated by compassion and a mandate to heal. But what about donating a womb…
Bioethics: Christian consensus lacking on end-of-life issues, professor says
BROWNWOOD, Texas (ABP) — When it comes to questions concerning end-of-life issues, the answers sometimes don't come any easier for Christians than they do for other people. While each year the Southern Baptist Convention devotes Sunday school lesson material to…
Louisiana Baptists pass measure taking full control of institutions
ALEXANDRIA, La. (ABP) — Messengers to the Louisiana Baptist Convention annual meeting Nov. 12-13 passed without discussion a measure that ensures the convention has complete control of its college and other affiliated institutions. The measure amended the charter of convention-related…
South Carolina Baptists OK move toward 50-50 CP split
FLORENCE, S.C. (ABP) — South Carolina Baptists have approved budget projections that will gradually result in the state convention forwarding 50 percent of all undesignated receipts to the Southern Baptist Convention. Messengers at the South Carolina Baptist Convention meeting, held…
Critics: Doctrinal standard leaves evangelical society ‘exposed’
SAN DIEGO (ABP) – To its critics, the current doctrinal standard of the Evangelical Theological Society is as skimpy as a bikini. And two of the society's members have put forth a proposal to tighten the document into a more…
Workers bring clean water, love of Christ to Ethiopia
ATLANTA (ABP) — Nearly 75 percent of Ethiopians — about 55 million people — don't have access to clean water. And according to missionary workers there, it's a crisis not discussed often enough. Many Ethiopians are forced to drink from…
Longtime Baptist statesman Wayne Dehoney dies at 89
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Former Southern Baptist Convention President Wayne Dehoney, longtime pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., died Nov. 15. He was 89. Dehoney, who served at Walnut Street from 1967 to 1985, was SBC president…
Seven N.C. colleges to give scholarships to children of CBF missionaries
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Seven Baptist colleges and universities in North Carolina will offer undergraduate tuition scholarships for children of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship missionaries. The schools, all of which are Baptist-affiliated, are Campbell University in Buies Creek, Chowan University in…
Bioethics: How far is too far when trying to ‘be fruitful and multiply’?
NEW YORK (ABP) — In Brazil, a 51-year-old woman gave birth to her own twin grandchildren. She used embryos from her 27-year-old daughter, who had tried for four years to conceive. In January, a Texas-based “human embryo bank” announced prospective…
Evangelical scholar: Africans understand Old Testament better than Westerners
SAN DIEGO (ABP) – African Christians tend to understand and appreciate the Old Testament far better than their Western counterparts, author Philip Jenkins told his fellow evangelical scholars Nov. 15. Jenkins, a professor of religious studies and history at Pennsylvania…
Ky. Baptists elect officers unopposed, hear ‘troubling’ report on spirituality
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (ABP) – Messengers to the Kentucky Baptist Convention's annual meeting Nov. 13-14 elected all of the body's officers by acclamation, decided to shorten next year's annual meeting and heard a sobering report on the theological views of average…
Florida Baptists say alcohol use disqualifies leaders from service
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (ABP) — Only teetotalers will be allowed to serve as trustees of the Florida Baptist Convention's agencies and boards, as a result of a vote at the convention's annual meeting. With no discussion and less than half…