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

WASHINGTON (ABP) — West Virginia Baptists are mourning the passing of one of their most famous members — longtime Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) — and a Virginia Baptist congregation will host his memorial service July 6. Byrd in an undated…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, an 8-year-old theological partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is moving to the campus of Georgetown College, a historic Baptist school that loosened ties with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2005. The…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, an 8-year-old theological partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is moving to the campus of Georgetown College, a historic Baptist school that loosened ties with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2005….

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The head of a committee that drafted a recent Southern Baptist Convention resolution on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said on National Public Radio that the ecologic al disaster could be a "defining moment" for…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The head of a committee that drafted a recent Southern Baptist Convention resolution on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said on National Public Radio that the ecological disaster could be a "defining moment" for evangelicals…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A closely divided Supreme Court, in a June 28 ruling that resolved few major constitutional questions, said the University of California’s law school could refuse to offer the benefits of official registration to a Christian student group…

BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist Convention officer said he led Sen. Robert Byrd in the "sinner's prayer" to accept Christ during a hallway conversation during a chance meeting about four years ago in Washington. "I'm firmly…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Liberty University has demoted the president of its theological seminary after investigating claims that he exaggerated or fabricated parts of his testimony about converting from militant Islam to Christianity. Trustees of the school begun by Jerry…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — The culture warriors who contend that the United States is a “Christian nation” gravely endanger freedoms sacred to both Christianity and the nation, Mercer University President Bill Underwood warned supporters of the Baptist Joint Committee for…