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

MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in…

Pam Durso ATLANTA (ABP) — February marks the fourth annual Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching, in which Baptist churches are encouraged to invite a woman to preach. Associated Baptist Press asked Pam Durso, executive director of Baptist Women in…

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University theology professor Barry Harvey took just two texts to a church's recent seminar on reconciling faith and science: the Bible and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. “Far too often, [discussing faith and science] generates…

(ABP) — Sermons on forgiveness often emphasize the Lord’s Prayer — “and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” But should Christians always forgive, regardless of circumstances? Is granting forgiveness always appropriate? “Yes — but…”…

Chris Carrier was abducted at age 8, assaulted and left for dead in the Florida Everglades. Chris not only survived the ordeal, but 22 years later, he told his attacker he was forgiven and lead the man to faith in…

TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) — Investigators said Jan. 29 that a fire that gutted the historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Temple, Texas, on Jan. 19 was set deliberately. The case is now being treated as a criminal investigation. The…

MIAMI (ABP) — Despite crackdowns from the National Football League in recent years that frightened many church leaders into abandoning watch parties for America’s biggest sporting event, experts say churches are free to host viewings of Super Bowl XLIV on…

TOCCOA, Ga. (ABP) — The widow of a Baptist pastor killed last September in a botched drug arrest has sent notice that she intends to sue the city of Toccoa, Ga., and/or a three-county narcotics-enforcement unit involved in his shooting….