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Why Gen Z is losing faith in America

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, our latest report, “Competing Visions of America at 250: Politics, Religion, and Identity,” surfaces a troubling signal for the future of our democracy — and it centers on the nation’s youngest citizens. Generation...

New Baptist Covenant II finalizes speaker lineup for Nov. gathering

ATLANTA (ABP) — Social activists Marian Wright Edelman and Tony Campolo will join former President Jimmy Carter and seven other speakers on the program of the New Baptist Covenant II, a Nov. 17-19 gathering of diverse Baptists in Atlanta that…

Mormons: Southern Baptist zombies

Maybe it was the return of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” for a second season, but this Halloween it seemed zombies took the place of vampires as the favorite nightmare of the American imagination. To cite one example, thousands of people…

Minister sentenced to 40 years behind bars

Obama spokesman: Bible phrase is ‘The Lord helps those who help themselves’

Pastors’ call for more faith talk in 2012 shows common ground elusive

Baptist Minister Heeds ‘Call’ to Join ‘Occupy Wall Street’

Obama: God wants us to put people back to work

Religious groups fight casino plan

British preacher convicted of sex crimes

Mercer University grants domestic-partner benefits to gays

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — As one university affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention captured headlines with a new policy that effectively bans gay employees, another historically Georgia Baptist school announced adoption of a domestic-partner benefit policy providing access to health…

New Baptist Covenant II speakers include prominent Virginia evangelist

A suburban Washington-based church planter and evangelist who serves as president of a prominent African-American Baptist denomination will be among the speakers at the New Baptist Covenant II, it was announced Nov. 2. Carroll Baltimore of Gainesville, Va., president of…

Pastor apologizes for Halloween tract

HILLSBORO, Ohio (ABP) – A Southern Baptist pastor in Ohio apologized for giving trick-or-treaters a religious tract that contained a cartoon depiction of a child hanging in a noose. Kenny Cousar, pastor of Northview Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Ohio, issued…

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing