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Moderate Baptists uneasy about evangelical political baggage

Are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Mainstream Baptists evangelicals? The answer is yes and no. Formed in reaction to the Southern Baptist Convention’s shift to the far right in the late 1980s and early 1990s, both the CBF and Mainstream focus…

New poll finds large overlap in Religious Right, Tea Party

WASHINGTON (ABP) – A new poll suggests that, contrary to some media characterizations, the Tea Party movement has significant overlap with the Religious Right and the Republican Party. The third biennial American Values Survey, released by the Public Religion Research…

Justices struggle with free-speech limits in arguments over church

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The justices of the Supreme Court struggled Oct. 6 over where to draw the line between freedom of highly unpopular speech and the freedom of a dead soldier’s family to mourn in private. The high court heard…

Mohler criticizes Nobel selection of in-vitro-fertilization inventor

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist theologian is criticizing the selection of a British biologist who pioneered the technology of in vitro fertilization as winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine. Cambridge University professor Robert Edwards is winner of…

Separation of church and state worth preserving

By Nathan Webb The relationship of government and religion in America has long been a controversial topic. Early colonists came to America with the hope of creating a nation in which their religion was not controlled or restricted by the…

Reduction in force planned at NAMB

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — Telling staff of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board “considerable change” is coming, President Kevin Ezell shared a retirement incentive with employees that will be the beginning of an overall reduction in force in…

BJC board discusses state of liberty

WASHINGTON (ABP) – Directors of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, meeting in Washington Oct. 4-5, discussed the tenuous state of religious freedom in America and heard of the organization’s continuing search for property on Capitol Hill. At their…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war

Moderate Baptists uneasy about evangelical political baggage

New poll finds large overlap in Religious Right, Tea Party

Justices struggle with free-speech limits in arguments over church

Mohler criticizes Nobel selection of in-vitro-fertilization inventor

Separation of church and state worth preserving

Reduction in force planned at NAMB

BJC board discusses state of liberty

Church administrators to focus on risk management

SBC ethics czar Land comes out in favor of Tennessee mosque

When atheists and Baptists agree

Do non-believers know more about faith than believers?

SBC ethics chief supports Murfreesboro mosque

From Augustine to Jefferson, the idea of separating church and state has deep religious and secular roots

Defying pope and facing excommunication, SSPX consecrates bishops at huge outdoor Mass

BWA Leader Transitions to Full-Time Role with BWA Women

The Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test

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Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war