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OPINION: Not on our watch

We all know that the church in North America is struggling. Every day we read about denominational staff cut backs and budget woes. Religious schools and institutions are suffering. And yet we in the church believe God is not through with…

BTSR considering merger with Chowan University

MURFREESBORO, N.C. (ABP) – Cash-strapped Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is considering a merger with Chowan University, a 162-year-old North Carolina Baptist school 99 miles south of the seminary’s Richmond, Va., campus, in hopes of solving lingering financial problems made…

Religious freedom cuts two ways

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of commentaries adapted from articles that ran in consecutive issues of Report from the Capital. Yesterday’s installment challenged myths that the separation of church and state is not implied in the…

Sometimes integrity is who you are when everyone is looking

By Laura Rector “Integrity is who you are when no one’s looking,” I was told as a college student. As an ethicist earning her Ph.D. at Fuller Seminary, I agree only in part. Choices made in private do matter. In…

Moments of silence observed for New Zealand quake victims

Christian author’s book sparks charges of heresy

Activities of council candidates’ church draw criticism

Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard Minister, Dies at 68

Church figure says Christians should stand up for their beliefs

BTSR considering merger with North Carolina’s Chowan University

MURFREESBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is considering a merger with Chowan University, a 162-year-old North Carolina Baptist school 99 miles south of the seminary’s Richmond, Va., campus, in hopes of solving lingering financial problems made worse…

Oeita Bottorff, SBC moderate leader, dies

DALLAS (ABP) – A key leader in the moderate response to the Southern Baptist Convention inerrancy controversy in the 1980s died Feb. 25 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Oeita Theunissen, 87, known professionally and in church leadership as…

Myths about the separation of church and state

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of commentaries adapted from articles that ran in consecutive issues of Report from the Capital. By Brent Walker The United States of America is one of the most religious and certainly…

‘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