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Texas Baptist Men chainsaw crews headed to Alabama

DALLAS (ABP) — Six Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams have been deployed to serve in the wake of devastating tornados in Alabama. Five chainsaw teams and a shower unit are on the scene or soon will be en route…

Embodied hallelujahs — an invitation to dance

By Angela Yarber Liker many ordained Baptist pastors, I recently guided my congregation during the seasons of Lent and Easter with spiritual disciplines, preaching, worship and baptism. This week I shout hallelujah with my body. I dance. Angela Yarber April…

An Easter PSA

By Elizabeth Evans Hagan There’s nothing like Easter Sunday to make folks happy. Songs and shouts of “Alleluias” fill our sanctuaries. People arrive dressed in their Easter best. Old and new friends alike are in the same room for a…

Jim Caviezel: ‘Playing Jesus Christ cost me my acting career’

Magician calls fake MLK quote that went viral on Twitter following bin Laden’s death an ‘honest mistake’

Lessons from storms past

By Barry Howard On Palm Sunday in 1994 a tornado touched down near Ragland, Ala., and cut a trail to Rome, Ga., demolishing hundreds of homes, destroying five church campuses and taking 29 lives before leaving that area. Entire communities…

The ‘Arab Spring’ and the future of American Christianity

By Jim Denison Since January, we have watched the wildfires of change sweep across the Arab world. What will be the result of this pro-democracy movement in coming months and years? What lessons for our churches can we learn from…

10 Most Tweeted Bible Verses in Response to bin Laden’s Death

Vatican hopes peace will come from bin Laden’s death

King James Bible turns 400

ABP directors celebrate press, religious freedom with awards

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) – Freedom of religion and the press are two Baptist gifts important to both church and state, two award recipients said at a May 1 ceremony sponsored by Associated Baptist Press. R.G. Puckett displays an engraved clock…

CBF responds to Alabama tornadoes

First Baptist Church of Williams served as a shelter and staging area following storms. JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (ABP) – Amid overwhelming destruction following the second-deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, Baptist Christians stepped forward to do their part to help. “We…

‘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