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Saddleback’s ‘Good Neighbor Weekend’ getting mixed reviews

Supreme Court won’t review NYC ban on worship in schools

WASHINGTON (ABP) – Church-state observers expressed surprise at the Supreme Court’s Dec. 5 refusal to hear an appeal of a ruling that New York City has the right to bar the use of public school buildings for worship when school…

Church withdraws from association that ousted woman pastor

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (ABP) – A North Carolina Baptist association that expelled a church last summer for naming a woman as pastor lost another prominent member congregation Dec. 4. Members of the 132-year-old First Baptist Church of Mount Airy, N.C.,…

Advent a progressive journey toward Christmas

By Barry Howard When observed faithfully and progressively, Advent can prepare us for a Christmas celebration filled with mystical wonder and deep meaning, a spiritual communion that far exceeds the buzz of shallow commercialism. In the rural church of my…

Tony Perkins: Jesus was a free marketer, not an Occupier

Rev. Billy Graham released from hospital

Billy Graham returns home after hospital stay

MONTREAT, N.C. (RNS) — Evangelist Billy Graham returned to his North Carolina home Dec. 6 after a six-day stay in a nearby hospital where he was treated for pneumonia. Billy Graham continues to write two years after his last official crusade….

Archbishop says Jesus would be siding with Occupy movement

LONDON (RNS) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says Jesus would have joined protesters from the anti-corporate Occupy movement who have been camped outside London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for more than seven weeks. Protesters have been camped outside St. Paul's…

Association’s dismissal prompts churches to withdraw

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — Two churches in Mount Airy, N.C., have withdrawn from the local Surry Baptist Association in response to its dismissal last July of an affiliated church which called a woman as pastor. Piney Grove Baptist Church voted…

Salvaged produce meets needs of hunger ministries

BIG ISLAND, Va. — An ancient biblical practice has been adopted by some Baptists in Southwest Virginia in response to increasing hunger needs in America’s uncertain economy. Old Testament farmers were told not to pick their fields and vineyards clean,…

What would Jesus occupy?

Church marks decline in city’s homicide rate

Highland Baptist Church gathers for an annual tradition memorializing homicide victims during Advent. (Photo by Bill Campbell) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – A somber Advent tradition was mingled with hope as Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., placed 46 crosses on…

ICE agents are least-trained law enforcement in America

Coalition campaign seeks to ‘Melt ICE’

Hegseth’s testosterone testing plays into MAGA mythology

In conversation with George Mason