When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...

Analysis Lovett H. Weems Jr.

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States look to guarantee civility at military funerals

More than 9 in 10 Americans continue to believe in God

Mars Hill College hires female chaplain with ties to CBF

MARS HILL, N.C. (ABP) — Mars Hill College, located in the conservative mountains of an increasingly conservative North Carolina Baptist environment, has hired an ordained woman with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship ties as campus chaplain. Stephanie McLeskey comes to Mars…

Civil War, Civil Rights

CARBONDALE, Ill. (ABP) — One hundred and fifty years after Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter, S.C., and the Civil War began, reminders of the conflict that divided a nation remain fresh. Some see them any given Sunday morning when…

Caribbean Baptists voice solidarity with U.S. tornado victims

KINGSTON, Jamaica (ABP) – The head of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship pledged prayers and solidarity with tornado victims in the United States. Everton Jackson, executive secretary-treasurer of the fellowship of about 15 active bodies in English, French/Creole and Spanish languages…

Theology no issue as volunteers Converge on disaster sites

ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) — Serious mission leaders have long understood that volunteers shed theological strait jackets when they bend together to meet needs of disaster victims. In the storm-ravaged South, especially Alabama and Joplin, Mo., that truth is being confirmed…

The end of the world as we know it

By Amy Butler Well, another Rapture prediction has come and gone and I don’t know about you, but I’m still here. This time, everybody seems to be talking about it, from conservative Christian friends, to non-believers, to my friends who…

Being Baptist — An Interracial Journey

By Bill Leonard One Sunday in January 1994, our family — Candyce, Stephanie and I — walked across the parking lot of the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., after the morning service. An elderly African-American woman approached us…

Professor studies Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists

Military’s first Hindu chaplain brings a diverse background

Pastor witness to decades of change

Republican presidential candidates to address Evangelical Christians