DALLAS (ABP) — Officials with the Baptist General Convention of Texas will give law-enforcement agencies the documents produced by an independent investigation that revealed financial malfeasance in its church-starting efforts. Executive Director Charles Wade will provide officials “complete copies of…
Opinion: Divorce is not a spectator sport
Have you heard the latest? Pamela Anderson is divorcing Kid Rock after just four months of marriage. Did you know that Kevin Federline (aka K-Fed), Britney's estranged husband, is now nicknamed K-Fed-Ex? Isn't that hilarious? Did you see the tongue-in-cheek…
Journalists, conservative evangelicals prod each other over portrayal in press
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Evangelicals want secular journalists to be more accurate in their portrayals of conservative Protestants, and journalists in turn want respect from evangelical leaders and an understanding that the news business is not the promotion business. That was…
Poll shows voters care more about Iraq, poverty than abortion, gays
WASHINGTON (ABP) — “Kitchen-table” issues like poverty and greed were more important to voters in this year's midterm elections than issues usually trumpeted by religious groups, according to polls released recently. Commissioned by Faith in Public Life and Catholics in…
Court refuses to hear appeal of Maine voucher decision
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court declined Nov. 27 to consider overturning a Maine state court's decision against the use of tuition vouchers at religious schools. The justices' refusal to hear the appeal underscores their unwillingness — despite the court's…
Missionary kid returns to Nigeria with trailer-sized Christmas gift
DALLAS, Texas (ABP) — Many people renew family ties during the holidays, but for Mary Kay Posey, this year's 19-hour trip home will be particularly special. When she returns to Nigeria this month, she'll get the chance to carry on…
S.C. messengers increase budget, elect CP supporter as president
Messengers to the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention increased their budget by $600,000 for 2007 and elected a strong Cooperative Program supporter as president Nov. 15. For nine of the past 10 years, South Carolina Baptists have…
Texas Baptists approve measures to ‘restore trust’ after Valley scandal
“Together We Are Doing More” was the stated theme, but healing from financial scandal was the subtext that dominated the annual meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Messengers to the Nov. 13-14 meeting elected officers, adopted a $50.6…
Organization at center of scandal in Valley will shut down
A church-planting institute founded by Otto Arango—the central figure in a scandal involving misuse and mismanagement of Texas Baptist church-starting funds in the Rio Grande Valley—will cease to exist at the end of this year. At a special meeting in…
Alabama Baptists approve budgets,ask Wal-Mart to reconsider
Wal-Mart's support of homosexuality, ethics in state government, and the humanitarian crisis in western Sudan surfaced as some of the top issues this year with Alabama Baptists. And Roger Willmore, pastor of Deerfoot Baptist Church in Trussville, Ala., became the…
William & Mary and Jesus
When I read that Gene Nichol, president of the College of William and Mary, had ordered removed from the chapel the bronze cross that had stood there for a century or so, my first response was anger. Nichol decided that…
Pray for Sudan
The passage of the resolution on genocide in Sudan at the Baptist General Association of Virginia meeting was an extremely significant event. What has been happening in Darfur, West Sudan, the past two years has been happening in Southern Sudan…