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

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner International since 1994, announced his retirement from the Dallas-based organization during a July 22 meeting of the board of trustees. His retirement is effective April 30, 2012, when President…

Colleen Burroughs (ABP) — As our group of 22 boarded a plane to return home from Malawi this week, organized protests began making world news. Malawians had grown tired of petrol shortages, the rising cost of commodities and perceived government…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (ABP) – A Western Kentucky University professor is seeking contributors for an upcoming book detailing moderate responses to the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s. Carl Kell’s 2006 Exiled: Voices of the Southern…

TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) – A Florida judge said July 19 that a prominent Southern Baptist church does not have to pay $4.75 million in damages awarded last year to a man injured seven years earlier on a church-sponsored youth ski…

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (ABP) – A prominent Florida pastor took exception to recent statements by a Southern Baptist seminary president that homosexuality is “not merely a matter of choice.”  Roy Hargrave Roy Hargrave, senior pastor of Riverbend Church in Ormond…

WASHINGTON (ABP) – President Obama met 40 minutes July 20 with Christian leaders seeking to protect programs that aid poor people in any debt-reduction deal that the administration reaches with Congress. Participants in the meeting said the national coalition calling…