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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,…

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David Goatley (left) and Sam Tolbert are organizing to provide support for victims of disasters long after relief volunteers' chain saws go silent. (Photo courtesy of EthicsDaily.com) photo

Three die at Joplin church hit by tornado

JOPLIN, Mo. (ABP) — At least two Missouri Baptist churches are among the scores of institutions, businesses and homes destroyed when one of 68 reported tornadoes that swept across the Midwest on Sunday struck Joplin, Mo. Police in Joplin check through…

Historical Society celebrates Baptists’ ‘singing faith’ with hymn festival

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) – This year’s gathering of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society was atypically melodic, featuring a hymn festival May 17 celebrating hymnody in various genres. Fred Anderson, the society’s executive director, said the hymn singing at Grace Baptist…

Former IMB chair nominated as Kentucky exec

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – A past chairman of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board who supports changing the Cooperative Program unified budget to send more money to overseas mission fields will be nominated as next executive director-treasurer of the Kentucky…

‘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