Children are hungry tonight because of Lindsey Graham

Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...

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Obama’s Muslim outreach named top religion story of 2009

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The nation’s religion journalists named President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world as the top religion story of the year. Members of the Religion Newswriters Association ranked the June speech in Cairo, in which the president quoted…

Use the Quran to share Christ with Muslim, veteran missionary suggests

ANGLETON, Texas — Winning Muslim converts to Christianity is difficult, but veteran missionary Kevin Greeson knows a way—start with the Quran. Greeson, who has served 16 years with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board working to start Christian movements among…

RIGHT or WRONG? Emerging Church

Our church just hired a pastor who is young enough to be the child of many members. His language about “the emerging church,” “postmodernism” and “interfaith dialogue” distresses older members. Communication and context seem to be the issues in conflict…

2009: The year in quotes from Baptist newsmakers

(ABP) — A month-by-month summary of quotations from Baptist newsmakers over the past year: January "I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus, Jesus [pronounced hay-SOOS], who taught us to…

Most-read ABP stories of 2009

(ABP) — If there’s one thing that the 2009 Internet statistics for Associated Baptist Press stories show, it’s that Wiley Drake knows how to draw media attention. Three of the ten most-viewed articles on ABP’s website between Jan. 1 and…

Most-read ABP stories of 2009 feature controversies, tragedies — and Drake

(ABP) — If there’s one thing that the 2009 Internet statistics for Associated Baptist Press stories show, it’s that Wiley Drake knows how to draw media attention. Wiley Drake Three of the ten most-viewed articles on ABP’s website between Jan….

Grand jury clears police in shooting of Georgia Baptist pastor

TOCCOA, Ga. (ABP) — A grand jury has cleared police officers involved in a Sept. 1 shooting that killed a Southern Baptist pastor caught in the middle of a botched drug sting. An 18-member grand jury in Stephens County in…

Historic downtown D.C. church, once at death’s door, now thriving

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Moments before Sunday worship begins, Pastor Amy Butler and members of the Calvary Baptist Church choir gather in a small annex next to the sanctuary. Butler leads the group in a short prayer, then issues a warning….

Historic downtown D.C. church, once at death’s door, now thriving

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Moments before Sunday worship begins, Pastor Amy Butler and members of the Calvary Baptist Church choir gather in a small annex next to the sanctuary. Butler leads the group in a short prayer, then issues a warning….

Jimmy Carter apologizes to Jews for controversial past statements

ATLANTA (ABP) — Criticized in the past for remarks that upset many in America's Jewish community, former President Jimmy Carter apologized Dec. 21 for any of his words or actions that might have served to stigmatize Israel. Jimmy Carter photographed…

Ga. Baptist college to require faculty assent to SBC faith statement

Emir Caner, who converted from Islam to Christianity as a teenager, is best known for work, along with his brother Emir Caner, warning about purported evils of the Islamic faith. CLEVELAND, Ga. (ABP) — Truett-McConnell College in northeast Georgia…

Tiger Woods, guilt and grace

By Jim Denison “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all my heart.” With these now-famous words, Tiger Woods responded to the allegations of extra-marital affairs that dominated the news in the weeks before Christmas….