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The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...

N.C. educator to be president of Kentucky’s Georgetown College

(ABP) — Longtime North Carolina educator M. Dwaine Greene has been named president of Georgetown (Ky.) College. Greene, 56, has been academic vice president and provost since 2001 at Campbell University. He succeeds former president Bill Crouch, who retired June…

CBF leadership teams meet

By Bob Allen Implementation of a new chapter in the life of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship moves forward this week with leadership meetings at, and next door to, recently occupied new offices in Decatur, Ga. The meetings set for Sept….

Flying blind

By Bill Wilson In flight, spatial disorientation is the condition in which a pilot’s perception of direction does not match reality. It typically results from flying into poor weather conditions with low or no visibility. Under these conditions the pilot…

The geography of Mormonism

Pope Francis leads peace prayer vigil for Syria with 100,000 at St. Peter’s Square at Vatican

Pope Francis, the ‘cold-call pope’, reaches out and touches a lot of people

As publications struggle, Christian literary magazine Books & Culture could shut down

Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian

The hidden cost to teens of adult mistakes

In the last 3 days I have had conversations about 5 different instances where a youth minister or key volunteer made a poor choice and it cost them their jobs, and consequently, their relationships with most of the teens with…

Thunder rolls on for motorcycle riders as annual gathering plans mountain event

Can you hear it? It’s thunder rolling through the hills and valleys of central Virginia. Virginia Baptist motorcycle riders and their friends will gather Oct. 4-6 at Watermarks Camp in Scottsville, Va., for the 2013 edition of Thunder in the…

Festival aims to overcome theological differences, address social issues

HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (ABP) — The third-annual Wild Goose Festival opened in early August in the mountains of North Carolina, with organizers and many participants hoping the outdoor gathering will heal divisions between conservative, progressive and moderate Christians. National leaders…

Church shares passion for orphan soles

By Jenny Pope Most churches greet the rush of the back-to-school season with special worship services and promotion Sundays, but one Houston church stays grounded with an annual project that has now helped protect the feet of more than 100,000…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war