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

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A bipartisan federal panel charged with monitoring religious-freedom questions worldwide blasted current and past administrations — Republican and Democratic alike — April 29 for under-emphasizing religious liberty in foreign policy. In releasing its annual report, the independent…

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Campbellsville University's Carver School of Social Work and Counseling is set to award its first master's degrees 12 years after acquiring the Carver name for its baccalaureate program from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Kentucky Baptist…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Two prominent conservative voices in the nation’s culture wars — Fox News commentator Glenn Beck and Southern Baptist seminary president Paige Patterson — will speak at Liberty University’s commencement exercises May 15, the school has announced….

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has lifted a two-year-old ban on sectarian prayers — including those referring to Jesus Christ — led by Virginia State Police chaplains at department-sanctioned public events. The recently elected Republican governor instructed…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — A former football player at Southwest Baptist University has been sentenced to 120 days in jail three months after pleading guilty to second-degree assault in a 2006 beating that left a Bolivar, Mo., man permanently disabled….

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — A female New Testament scholar and ordained United Church of Christ minister has been tapped to replace Baptist historian Bill Leonard as dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Gail O'Day, currently senior associate dean…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A divided Supreme Court rendered a complex decision April 28 on the fate of a lonely cross in the California desert. The decision — the first major church-state case of Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure — upset religious-freedom…