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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...

CBFMO offers incentive for churches to consider women as pastors

COLUMBIA, Mo. (ABP) – A state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is offering cash incentives for churches searching for a pastor to consider a female candidate as part of the process. The CBF of Missouri offered Sept. 17 to pay interview, travel…

Baptist university contributes to Pujols Foundation as partner

ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Missouri Baptist University recently contributed $9,000 to the Pujols Family Foundation as the first gift in a partnership the university plans to continue. Missouri Baptist University President Alton Lacey (second, left) gives St. Louis Cardinals First…

Alabama Baptists remain on sidelines of immigration debate

GUNTERVILLE, Ala. (ABP) – An Alabama Baptist Convention spokesman explained why Baptist churches aren’t joining Methodists, Episcopalians, Catholics and others in protesting the state’s anti-illegal immigration law. “I don’t have the right to speak for the Baptists, because they haven’t…

Jameson joins Wake Forest advancement staff

Norman Jameson WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Norman Jameson, a veteran Baptist journalist whose bylines have appeared recently in Associated Baptist Press, has joined the advancement staff at Wake Forest University. Jameson, 58, serves as assistant dean for development for the WFU…

Volunteer mission teams need career missionaries

By Larry Hovis At the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina General Assembly in March, we collected a mission offering designated for the newly formed Haiti Housing Network. CBF is one of the principal partners in this network, which has…

BBC Drops B.C./A.D. Dating Method: Christians Outraged

Dead Sea Scrolls online after high-tech photo process

Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad

Iranian pastor refuses to recant faith despite death sentence

OPINION: Short-term missions should not undermine field personnel

At the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina General Assembly in March, we collected a mission offering designated for the newly formed Haiti Housing Network. CBF is one of the principal partners in this network, which has the ambitious goal…

Jameson joins Wake Forest Divinity School advancement staff

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Norman Jameson, a veteran Baptist journalist whose bylines have appeared recently in the Religious Herald and Associated Baptist Press, has joined the advancement staff at Wake Forest University. Jameson, 58, serves as assistant dean for development for…

SBC leader says gay marriage not ‘live and let live’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – A Southern Baptist leader warned Sept. 24 that gay marriage is not a matter of “live and let live” but rather part of a “radical homosexual agenda” aimed at destroying the institution of marriage. “The big…

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