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The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...

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Vietnamese churches join Baptist World Alliance

HONOLULU — Some of the globe’s most persecuted Christians found an international home when the Baptist World Alliance admitted the Baptist Churches in Vietnam into the global organization. The BWA’s General Council voted full membership July 28 to the Vietnamese…

Baptist pastor arrested in protest

RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — A North Carolina Baptist pastor said July 27 she does not understand why she was arrested July 20 for simply trying to attend a public meeting of a school board whose policy on integration she had…

Baptists lift voices in Vatican

By Barry Howard The group gathering in St. Peter’s Square dressed in formal attire on this hot Thursday afternoon in July was attracting a lot of attention from locals and from tourists. The men in the group were decked out…

Religion and foreign policy

By Suzii Paynter “Once considered a private matter by Western policymakers, religion is now playing an increasingly influential role — both positive and negative — in the public sphere.” This is the opening sentence of a major foreign policy report,…