Let’s tell a new story: Juneteenth and the Fourth of July

DALLAS (ABP) — A recommendation approved by the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board’s education and finance subcommittees would adjust funding guidelines to “level the playing field” for universities receiving Texas Baptist Cooperative Program funds, said Steve Vernon, associate…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Those unemployed long-term suffer from more than loss of a paycheck. Being jobless shatters certainty and puts at risk every level of security a person has worked to accumulate. Joblessness assaults self worth, psychological stability and…

MINERAL, Va. (ABP) — The rare East Coast earthquake Aug. 23 left two Baptist churches near the epicenter with cracked walls and broken glass, but no major damage, said spokespersons at each congregation. Mineral Baptist Church and Louisa Baptist Church…

CLYDE, N.C. (ABP) — Economic life is never easy in western North Carolina’s mountains and 70 percent of the poor are locked into “generational poverty” that holds them back like the concrete anchors on their mobile homes. At least the…

Walter Fauntroy WASHINGTON (ABP) – Former Congressman and Baptist preacher Walter Fauntroy was among three dozen foreign journalists freed Aug. 24 from a Tripoli hotel after five harrowing days of being held captive by loyalists to the formerly powerful Libyan…