WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just one day after a purported “breakthrough” on immigration reform in the Senate, a partisan dispute erupted in the Senate April 7, effectively setting back a compromise bill for weeks. Legislation hailed as a consensus bill and…
FIRST PERSON: William & Mary student learns lesson while repairing Gulf Coast homes
Everyone has heard the story by Loren Eiseley about the man walking along the beach at sunset who sees a boy in the distance bending down, picking something up, and throwing it into the ocean. As he gets closer he…
CORRECTION
The chair of the Baptist General Association of Virginia's Christian life committee is David Roberts, not Bill Nieporte as reported in last week's Herald.
Alabama churches face options as they rebuild after fires
BRIERFIELD, Ala. (ABP) — The clearing where Ashby Baptist Church once sat tucked in the woods is now clearer than it's been in nearly a century. With the ashes and debris from its sanctuary cleaned up, the site a quarter…
Done with arson case, Alabama ATF agent leads hunt for beeping eggs
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — David Hyche has spent the last two months helping people hunt things. Hyche, the agent in charge of supervising the church fire investigations for the Birmingham Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives division, has led his team…
Tennessee Baptist churches rally to help tornado victims
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (ABP) — Tennessee Baptists are rallying to respond to victims of a series of severe storms that tore through west Tennessee April 2 and 3. As of April 5, police had confirmed the storms killed 28 people in…
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Tennessee Baptists to challenge Belmont, may ‘vacate’ board
NASHVILLE (ABP) — The Tennessee Baptist Convention will hold a rare special convention May 9 to deal with a growing rift with Baptist-affiliated Belmont University. Belmont wants to elect its own trustees, who have been appointed by the convention for…
Pro fisherman with no legs, one arm uses profession to witness to others
ROCKWALL, Texas (ABP) — Clay Dyer has a dream job. He believes without a doubt God called him to become a professional fisherman — and not just the “fisher of men” variety. Making his living with a rod, reel and…
Just days after asserting ‘war,’ DeLay leaves Congress
WASHINGTON (ABP) — One of the Religious Right's congressional heroes is leaving Congress under a cloud, just days after he appeared at a conference where the organizer said the attacks on him were part of a “war on Christians.” In…
Longtime Illinois columnist Tom Adams, 75, dies
ELGIN, Ill. (ABP) — Tom Adams, who penned one of the longest-running columns for a state Baptist newspaper, died April 1 following a heart attack. He was 75. “Tom's humility and his lack of pretense were qualities that endeared him…
Afghan president Karzai praises treatment of exiled Christian
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Afghanistan's president praised his government April 4 for releasing a Christian who had been threatened with death for abandoning Islam. Hamid Karzai said the nation's judiciary was right not to bow to pressure from Muslim clerics and…