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‘Generosity’ may communicate in ways ‘stewardship’ misses

A 2,000-year-old incident continues to set the standard for what it means to be a generous church. The New Testament records the need: “Our Jerusalem brothers and sisters need our help.” And in the face of difficult financial circumstances, the…

Debt keeps families, churches from reaching potential, say advisers

If Americans had followed biblical financial principles, they could have lessened — or completely avoided — the worst recession in decades, two prominent Christian money management specialists said. “Debt may not be a sin, but it is certainly a curse,”…

Some social analysts call for reclaiming the lost virtue of thrift

Some social analysts observe the United States in the past half-century has shifted from a Bedford Falls-like culture of small businesses and community-friendly savings and loan institutions to a Pottersville-style nightmare of predatory lenders and seedy businesses that target the…

Supreme Court gets technical in arguments on Mojave cross

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Although the case of a lonely cross on federal land in California’s Mojave Desert ultimately could have wide-ranging implications for the separation of church and state, justices on the Supreme Court spent much of the Oct. 7…

Victims of church beating expected to recover

ANNA, Ill. (ABP) — An Illinois man faces charges of attempted murder in a brutal beating attack Sept. 28 on two senior-adult women in a small-town Southern Baptist church. Willis Bates, 45, of Anna, Ill., is accused of attacking 69-year-old…

Victims of brutal beating in Illinois church expected to recover

With globalism, what are Baptists’ new frontiers?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of four essays by Baptist historians and thinkers all dealing with the theme, “History Speaks to Hard Questions Baptists Ask,” that will be published by Associated Baptist Press on each of the next four…

Judge delays ruling on dismissal of ‘birther’ case

SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) — A federal judge heard arguments for three hours Oct. 5 about whether or not he should dismiss a lawsuit questioning Barack Obama's birthplace and the legitimacy of his presidency. In the end, U.S. District Court…

Judge delays ruling on dismissal of Wiley Drake’s ‘birther’ case

Probe of Georgia pastor’s shooting expected to take another month

LAVONIA, Ga. (ABP) — An investigation into the Sept. 1 police shooting of a Southern Baptist pastor in northeast Georgia is expected to last another month. Brian Rickman, district attorney of Mountain Judicial Circuit, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation…

Charles Wellborn, ‘Baptist Hour’ preacher, writer, ethicist, dies

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — Retired Florida State University professor and former "Baptist Hour" radio preacher Charles Wellborn died Oct. 1 at his home in Georgetown, Ky. Contemporaries described Charles Wellborn, who died Oct. 1 at age 86 as one of…

In North Georgia, signs of the times?

By Libby Grammer Garrett Everywhere I have gone this week, from the doctor’s office to Facebook, I find myself inextricably entangled in turbulent conversations about my high-school alma mater’s cheerleaders, their inspirational football-game banners citing passages like, “I can do…

Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention