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

TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) — First Baptist Church in Temple, Texas, has suspended operation of its 40-year-old Child Development Center indefinitely due to smoke and water damage from a Jan. 19 fire that authorities ruled arson. The decision, announced to church…

 CORRECTION: This story was updated at 7:30 p.m. CST Feb. 4 to correct an error in the 10th paragraph.  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A top official of the Southern Baptist Convention said Feb. 3 he is confident that a church…

PHILADELPHIA (ABP) — A new study by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine says that abstinence-only sex-education programs are effective in getting some pre-teens to delay having sex. The study, which appeared in the Feb. 1 edition of Archives of…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  (ABP) — Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was a trip to pack for. The Mission, Texas-based nurse and doctor had prayed for an opportunity to help meet medical needs in the wake…

A child stands in one of hundreds of makeshift tent cities that have sprung up in Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 earthquake. (BGCT photo) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  (ABP) — Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was…

RAMONA, Calif. (ABP) — The lawyer representing a former Southern Baptist Convention official challenging the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency says there is legal precedent for courts to remove a sitting chief executive if the individual is found ineligible to…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — Nearly three weeks after an earthquake left an estimated 200,000 people dead, life in Haiti remains in as many pieces as the buildings toppled throughout Port-au-Prince. Carroll Prewitt (center) of Texas Baptist Men and James Cundiff…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Protestant pastors ranked Billy Graham by far the most influential living preacher in survey results released Feb. 2 by LifeWay Research. Asked to name three living Christian preachers that most influence them, 21 percent of pastors…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Protestant pastors ranked Billy Graham by far the most influential living preacher in survey results released Feb. 2 by LifeWay Research. Protestant pastors polled by LifeWay Research named Billy Graham as the living preacher who has…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary professor says the arrests of a group of Baptists from the United States accused of trying to remove children from earthquake-stricken Haiti without proper documentation could give a black eye to a…

DALLAS (ABP) — Food-assistance agencies nationwide serve 1 million more people each week than they did four years ago, according to a national study released Feb. 2. The nation’s network of food banks and related agencies provide emergency food to…