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

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — For Gloria Hernandez Padilla and her daughter, Belinda Perez, the ministry of a Texas Baptist adoption agency has come full circle — with adoptee Hernandez Padilla becoming grandmother to another adopted child. Gloria Hernandez Padilla, one…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — More than 50 years after Martin Luther King lamented that 11 o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, a Baylor University study suggests that religion itself may be a contributing factor in racial…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — More than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. lamented that 11 o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, a Baylor University study suggests that religion itself may be a contributing factor in…

DALLAS (ABP) — Will Bakke, director and executive producer of Beware of Christians, recognizes the provocative title of his new documentary will raise some eyebrows. He hopes it also will raise consciousness about what radical commitment to Christ really means….

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A leader in what organizers say is a growing movement of American Christians supporting arms control praised new restrictions on the United States' use of nuclear weapons unveiled by President Obama April 6. Obama's nuclear policy…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — African-American Baptist leaders were among 90 clergy and other Christian leaders who gathered at the White House April 6 for an Easter prayer breakfast at which President Obama extolled the redemptive nature of Christ’s death and resurrection….

ONEIDA, Ky. (ABP) — Michael Spencer, voice behind the popular and sometimes controversial Christian blog Internet Monk, died April 5 after a four-month battle with cancer. Spencer, 53, an ordained Baptist minister who graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in…

ONEIDA, Ky. (ABP) — Michael Spencer, voice behind the popular and sometimes controversial Christian blog Internet Monk, died April 5 after a four-month battle with cancer. A longtime campus minister at Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky, Spencer's life changed in…

(Editor's note: The original version of this story contained a sentence in the sixth paragraph that characterized the BTSR continuing-education classes as having been taught by volunteer faculty. The course is taught by experts from outside the school's regular faculty,…