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Churches, city preparing to make 10th anniversary of 9/11 a time of healing

NEW YORK (ABP) — As the calendar pages turn inexorably toward Sept. 11, New York City is preparing for a flood of solemn remembrances prompted by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack that claimed 3,000 lives and launched a…

Responding to ‘The Response’

By Bill Leonard On Aug. 6, thousands of Christians will join in a day of prayer and fasting at “The Response,” a “solemn assembly” at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Its purpose, leaders say, is “to pray for a historic breakthrough…

Priceless Veil of Veronica painting found in Tennessee mobile home

Campus Crusade for Christ Loses Donors Over Name Change

Princeton Review article lists Wheaton College as least gay-friendly

Pastor accused in 2 rapes

North Carolina association ousts church which called woman pastor

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (ABP) — Surry Baptist Association in North Carolina expelled Flat Rock Baptist Church in Mount Airy from membership July 26, two weeks after their new female pastor started at the church. The association of 65 churches…

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Churches, city preparing to make anniversary time of healing

NEW YORK (ABP) — As the calendar pages turn inexorably toward Sept. 11, New York City is preparing for a flood of solemn remembrance prompted by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack that claimed 3,000 lives and launched a…

Church hosts alternative to Perry prayer rally

HOUSTON (ABP) — A Baptist church will serve as host site to an ecumenical event formed in response to “The Response”—the prayer rally Gov. Rick Perry initiated at Houston's Reliant Stadium. Americans United for Separation of Church & State and…

Colleges, universities, pledge to interfaith community service

WASHINGTON (ABP) – About 200 representatives from college, university and theology school campuses visited the White House Aug. 3 to kick off a year-long program of interfaith community service. Announced in March, the President’s Interfaith and Community Campus Challenge invited…

Debt-ceiling compromise doesn’t fix economic injustice

By Zachary Bailes Well, the ceiling has been raised. While compromise has been reached in Washington D.C., the debate is not over. For months the debates will rage, and pundits will continue to put on their boxing gloves for the…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?