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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...

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CBF carries on ministry in Haiti one year after quake

ATLANTA (ABP) — As Haiti marked the one-year anniversary Jan. 12 of a devastating earthquake that claimed an estimated 300,000 lives and displaced more than 1 million people, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel and relief workers battled a cholera epidemic…

Baptist group welcomes new policy on travel to Cuba

ATLANTA (ABP) — Leaders of the Alliance of Baptists applauded the Obama administration's relaxing of travel restrictions to Cuba. The policy change, announced Jan. 14, coincided with a delegation leaving Jan. 24 to visit the island nation as part of…

Wailing women

By Elizabeth Evans Hagan It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke — an imam, a rabbi and a Baptist and an evangelical pastor spend 10 days together in Jerusalem — but for me, this week, such is true….

Evangelism or politics?

By Jim Denison Baptists make up 17.2 percent of American adults but comprise only 12.7 percent of the new Congress. This is one of the findings of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which recently published a study…