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Texas Baptist board calls for renegotiated agreement with Baylor

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted to take steps to renegotiate the relationship agreement between the state convention and Baylor University. At its May 24 meeting in Dallas, the board directed Associate Executive Director…

Baptists help Myanmar quake victims after learning of collapsed church

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Several Baptist groups are pooling resources for aid after receiving news that a Baptist church in Myanmar collapsed during a March earthquake, killing 24 and injuring 57. According to the Myanmar Times, about 200 people…

Rural church converts child care space to senior center

RURAL HALL, N.C. (ABP) — A tough decision to close its day care center after 20 years prompted a small North Carolina church to establish a center for senior adults in a mid-state area with a high number of seniors…

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Tragedy creates opportunity to work together

By Bill Webb It is about 4 p.m. on Monday, May 23. Updates have been trickling in all day after a tornado clawed through the south side of Joplin, Mo., less than 24 hours earlier, leaving a death toll of at…

Thank you, Harold Camping

By Jim Denison Traveling abroad this week with limited Internet access and writing nine hours after Harold Camping’s failed prediction that the Rapture would begin May 21, I find myself oddly grateful. Camping was wrong again — no massive earthquakes…

S.F. Circumcision Referendum ‘Blatant Violation’ of First Amendment

Baptist University of the Américas living into new vision

Chaplains: Troops may fear sharing beliefs on gays

OPINION: An opportunity to work together

Bill Webb It is about 4 p.m. on Monday, May 23. Updates have been trickling in all day after a tornado clawed through the south side of Joplin less than 24 hours earlier, leaving a death toll of at least…

Chainsaw units, chaplains activated as Baptists respond to Joplin tornado

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As disaster relief volunteers prepare to assist in Joplin, Mo., in the aftermath of Sunday's devastating tornado, other Baptists in Missouri can assist through donations, particularly of funds for supplies. (See related story here.) The tornado,…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system