WASHINGTON (ABP) — A broad variety of evangelicals and other Christian groups and leaders launched a new campaign May 7 to get Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With a Washington press conference and ads in two major Capitol Hill…
Correction
In the May 4 story “Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident,” please change the first graph to say: “Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30…
Fugitive secretary apprehended in Ga., charged with embezzling church funds
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — A former administrative assistant at a South Carolina Baptist Convention church is back in Charleston to face allegations that she embezzled more than $30,000 from the church's bank accounts. Kristin Barnes Warren is accused of forging…
Professor’s comments on Islam spark controversy in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A North Carolina religion professor's statement that Christianity and Islam talk about “the same God” is causing a furor among Baptists in Texas. At a February conference in Austin, Texas, Charles Kimball of Wake Forest University…
Opinion: Why some evangelicals decide to forego creation care
Evangelicals are waking up to our responsibility to the environment. Evangelical initiatives on the environment are growing in cultural impact, but they continue to garner stout resistance within the most conservative sector of our own community. Too often, politics and…
Abortion, evolution, faith featured in GOP debate
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (ABP) — Differences on abortion rights, stem-cell research and even the veracity of evolution became evident among the Republican presidential candidates in their first major debate May 3. While Democrats — who held their first debate a…
Missionaries return to Tanzania after surviving brutal attack there
MOSHI, Tanzania (ABP) — Two Southern Baptist missionaries are on their way back to Tanzania, where they were attacked with machetes and shot during a vicious robbery in the East African country. Carl and Kay Garvin, Southern Baptist missionaries who…
Baptist Assembly in Great Britain takes action on migrants, trafficking
BRIGHTON, England (ABP) — Baptists in Great Britain are calling on their government and churches to do more for migrant workers and to oppose human trafficking around the world. The resolution came at the May 4-7 Baptist Assembly in Brighton,…
Baylor prof Beckwith becomes Catholic, resigns as head of evangelical society
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Renowned evangelical philosopher Francis Beckwith has become a Roman Catholic and, as a result, has resigned as president — and also as a member — of the Evangelical Theological Society. Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies…
Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30 on her way to visit her grandparents in Tyler, Texas. Creed, a freshman student at Baylor University in Waco,…
Oregon, New Hampshire latest states set to recognize gay relationships
SALEM, Ore. (ABP) — Legislators in Oregon and New Hampshire have set up their states to become the latest offering marriage-like legal protections for same-sex couples. The Oregon Senate voted overwhelmingly May 2 to approve a bill creating domestic partnerships…
In reauthorizing Head Start, House rejects religious discrimination
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has turned back a last-ditch effort by Republicans to allow religious groups receiving Head Start funds to discriminate in hiring on the basis of faith. On a mostly party-line vote of 222-195, the…