Why are we still calling ourselves ‘moderate’ Baptists?

BALTIMORE (ABP) — A Maryland county will pay a Baptist church $3.25 million and allow construction of a Christian school that government officials have opposed for eight years under terms of a settlement reached Nov. 18 in federal court. An…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Directors of Arkansas Baptists’ newspaper have elected a Southern Baptist North American Mission Board official as the publication’s new editor. Tim Yarbrough The board of the Arkansas Baptist News, meeting Nov. 18 at the Baptist…

KELLER, Texas (ABP) — Theology that equates the modern state of Israel with the Israel of biblical prophecy has caused some evangelical Christians to let eschatology trump ethics when it comes to the Middle East, a Palestinian-American Christian told a…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) — A local government in Myanmar ordered a Baptist church to cease worship services after the pastor refused to wear an election campaign T-shirt supporting the country's ruling military junta, Compass Direct News reported Nov. 18….

OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) — Doug Baker, the editor of Oklahoma Baptists' news journal, has resigned after slightly more than 15 months on the job. Doug Baker Ron Fannin, senior associate executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, said…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The United States continues to oppose a proposed ban on defamation of religion currently before the United Nations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Nov. 17. "Now, some people propose that to protect religious freedom, we must…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Obama issued a long-awaited executive order Nov. 17 altering the government’s faith-based efforts, to generally positive reviews from those across the ideological spectrum on church-state issues. But some religious-liberty advocates expressed disappointment that the order avoided…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) — A county judge ruled Nov. 17 that Muslims can move forward with plans to build a new mosque and Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in a case that has become emblematic of national tensions over Islam….