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In Grand-Goave, U.S. Baptists offer Haitians a hand with church, clinic

GRAND-GOÂVE, Haiti (ABP) — Michael Akinboro emanates gentleness. Toddlers sit quietly while he checks their breathing. Babies obediently swallow bitter cough syrup. Not one child who comes for diagnosis fusses or cries. Michael Akinboro, a Nigerian-born registered nurse from African…

‘Good News Bible’ translator Bob Bratcher dies

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (ABP) — Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator for the Good News Bible, died July 11 at the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90. Robert Bratcher Born in Brazil the son of…

The good ‘other’

By Jerrod Hugenot The parable itself is quite unique. In fact, among all of the parables Jesus told as recorded in the four Gospels, this particular parable is one of only four that those who study such things classify as…

Six months after massive earthquake, Haiti still has a long way to go

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — Haiti is a country of conspicuous contrasts — a landscape both monochrome and vivid, and a people standing solidly, yet shaken to pieces. Nearly six months after an earthquake rocked Haiti, the island still bears the…

CBF joins national coalition of disaster-relief responders

Tori Wentz, one of CBF's field personnel, provides medical care during a recent mission trip to Haiti. (CBF photo) ATLANTA (ABP) — Five years after organizing a national disaster-relief ministry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…

CBF-funded Mercer team to attend to Haiti’s psychological wounds

ATLANTA (ABP) — Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-funded team of students with Haitian ties and faculty members from Mercer University is seeking to help the country recover from its deep psychological wounds. Reid…

Book signing turns into event

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — First it was a T-shirt. Then it was a book. At the recent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Charlotte, N.C., "This is What a Preacher Looks Like" became an event. Sue Fitzgerald, retired director of…

How God sees the Gulf

By Jim Denison A few weeks ago, my wife and I were flying over the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot came over the intercom, suggesting that we look through the windows on the left side of the airplane. We could…

BJC files brief opposing sectarian prayer at government meetings

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty filed legal papers July 6 arguing that inviting religious leaders to invoke sectarian prayers at a North Carolina county's board of commissioners meetings is unconstitutional. The BJC filed a friend-of-the-court…

God hates flags? Judge bars arrest of Westboro flag protester

LINCOLN, Neb. (ABP) — A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the arrest of a member of a controversial Baptist church for breaking a Nebraska law against desecrating the American flag. A Westboro Baptist Church member pickets…

Praying on the Gulf Coast

By Jim Wallis The captain was the first to smell it. He told us that the ocean didn’t used to smell this way. Then we all smelled it. As we traveled further out over the choppy waters, it finally came…

The proper way to eat animal crackers

By David Wilkinson What’s the proper way to eat an animal cracker? According to the book Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, the most popular order of dismemberment among children is as follows: back legs, forelegs, head and, lastly, torso….

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit