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

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Presidents of five historically African-American Baptist denominations announced Feb. 12 they were collaborating to respond more effectively to human need in Haiti. Robertson Murray Presidents of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; National Baptist Convention, USA;…

TYLER, Texas (ABP) — Two young men suspected of setting 10 East Texas churches on fire were active in the youth group of a Southern Baptist congregation before drifting away from church after the mother of one of them died…

TYLER, Texas (ABP) — Two young men suspected of setting 10 East Texas churches on fire were active in the youth group of a Southern Baptist congregation before drifting away from church after the mother of one of them died…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — An Ash Wednesday car/deer crash killed a pastor's daughter and united a Baptist church in grief. Emmie Cecelia Mears Webb was wearing ashes on her forehead applied earlier in the evening of Feb. 17 by her…

OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) — Max Lyall, a concert and church pianist who taught for 25 years at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, died unexpectedly Feb. 18. He was 71. Max Lyall An accomplished musician who performed as a soloist with…

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will vote this summer on a budget $1.65 million smaller than the current spending plan. The CBF Coordinating Council voted Feb. 19 to recommend a $14.5 million budget for 2010-2011 at the…

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will vote this summer on a new budget $1.65 million smaller than the current spending plan. CBF moderator Hal Bass presides at Coordinating Council meeting Feb. 19. The CBF Coordinating Council voted…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — In many places across the United States, a darkness that most people overlook clouds the eyes of hurting children, their stares serving as silent cries for help. They’re the glazed-over gazes of trafficked children who…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Eight Southern Baptist mission volunteers freed after three weeks in a Haitian jail said they hope their release will allow attention to focus once again on tremendous needs remaining from the Jan. 12 earthquake that…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Early Baptist reaction to the surprise choice of a controversial national political figure to serve as president of Baylor University has ranged from enthusiastic to skeptical to outraged. Kenneth Starr The Feb. 15 news that former…