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Pastors to preach barefoot in honor of MLK

ATLANTA (ABP) — As church members show up in new outfits Easter Sunday, pastors across America will preach barefoot in remembrance of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and to draw awareness to the more than…

Pastors to go barefoot on Easter to raise awareness about shoelessness

Is God your hobby?

By Jim Denison These are tough times for Christianity in the West. The Catholic Church in Germany is embroiled in an expanding sexual-abuse scandal. The head of Ireland’s Catholic Church has apologized for his role in mishandling the case of…

Church health center installs former Virginia Baptist leader as president

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A parade of friends and colleagues from past ministries helped to install Bill Wilson March 18 as second president of the Center for Congregational Health during a service at United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C….

Baugh Foundation awards ABP $125,000 grant, matching challenge

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) – Associated Baptist Press has been given a $125,000 grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation for its 2010 operating budget. The award from the Texas-based charity includes $75,000 earmarked as a “matching challenge gift”…

Abortion opponents disagree on health-care bill’s pro-life credentials

WASHINGTON (ABP) — As the clock ticks down to a final, dramatic March 21 House vote on the Senate version of the health-care-reform bill, pro-life leaders are feuding over whether the bill’s abortion provisions maintain the status quo or represent…

Grace for life-changing moments

By David Wilkinson “Daddy,” said the voice on the cell phone. I have assumed that only mothers have the gift of knowing instantly from the way a child calls her name if something is wrong, and that we fathers are…

Secular Jew writes about two years spent undercover in conservative church

LYNCHBURG, Va. (RNS) — Evangelical Christians were a mystery to Gina Welch. All she really knew about conservative evangelicals was that they were trying to change the country in ways she didn’t like. When she found herself living among them…

After condemning greed, what should Christians do about the economy?

NEW YORK (RNS) — Ever since the Great Recession began in the fall of 2008, Christians and other faith leaders have criticized the specuative excess and greed that led to the crisis. A consensus on what to do about it,…

Virginia Baptists contribute nearly $350,000 in relief for Haiti’s victims

RICHMOND, Va. — Almost $350,000 to assist victims of Haiti’s recent earthquake has been contributed in the past two months through the Baptist General Association of Virginia’s treasurer’s office, a financial officer said March 19. Virginia Baptist individuals, churches and…

Virginia Baptists contribute nearly $350,000 in relief for Haiti’s victims

Georgia Baptists target second church with woman pastor

ATLANTA (ABP) — For the second straight year, the Georgia Baptist Convention is poised to cut ties with a church over the issue of women in ministry. Graham Walker, co-pastor of Druid Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, said March 18…

Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention

Pastors to preach barefoot in honor of MLK

Pastors to go barefoot on Easter to raise awareness about shoelessness

Is God your hobby?

Church health center installs former Virginia Baptist leader as president

Baugh Foundation awards ABP $125,000 grant, matching challenge

Abortion opponents disagree on health-care bill’s pro-life credentials

Grace for life-changing moments

Secular Jew writes about two years spent undercover in conservative church

After condemning greed, what should Christians do about the economy?

Virginia Baptists contribute nearly $350,000 in relief for Haiti’s victims

Virginia Baptists contribute nearly $350,000 in relief for Haiti’s victims

Georgia Baptists target second church with woman pastor

Pope Leo XIV makes heartfelt appeal for migrants: ‘Human dignity has no passport’

Israel is tightening its grip on east Jerusalem with evictions and demolitions

Latest Pentagon Revision of Religion Affiliation Codes Creates Fresh Problems

The Anti-Defamation League Was Never Progressive — It Was Never Meant To Be

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Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention