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CBF announces layoffs

ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced deep staff cuts Jan. 28, citing lingering financial woes. According to a news release, 13 positions have been eliminated and one reclassified. Two of the jobs will move to contract positions. The…

Replacing Sarah Palin

By Brett Younger Remember how sad you felt when WJM-TV was sold and Mary Tyler Moore had to find a new job, Hawkeye came home from Korea or “The Sopranos” faded to black? Many are feeling the same kind of…

Parsing the president

By David Gushee Here is one Christian ethicist’s grammatical analysis of important lines in last week’s thoughtful State of the Union address by President Obama. Obama: “We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of…

Vietnamese pastors describe the risks of believing

Group sues to block prayer speaker at Air Force Academy

Anthony Hopkins horror flick ‘The Rite’ tops box office

Churches join for 3 days of prayer for Egypt

Dozens of police break up brawl at NC church

Morris Ashcraft dies, helped establish Baptist Seminary at Richmond

EVANSTON, Ill. (ABP) — Morris Ashcraft, a longtime seminary professor and administrator who after retiring helped establish Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, died Jan. 29 after a long illness. He was 88. An Arkansas native, Ashcraft taught five years at…

Faith in Memphis: Pregnancy ‘peril’ needs more than preaching

Virginians, Panamanians launch partnership

PANAMA CITY, Panama (ABP) — Twenty-five Virginia Baptists traveled to Panama Jan. 26 for the annual meeting of the Panama Baptist Convention and to sign documents establishing a five-year partnership between that body and the Baptist General Association of Virginia….

The State of the Union, from a different perspective

By David Wilkinson This week our 22-year-old daughter watched President Obama’s second State of the Union address from an interesting vantage point — a men’s shelter in the Southside neighborhood of Tucson, Ariz. Two evenings a week Meredith assists the…

‘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