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

JAY, Okla. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist pastor in Oklahoma has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after confessing to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl who attended his church. Josh Spires, 28, confessed to an "inappropriate, unlawful…

ANNA, Ill. (ABP) — Two women severely beaten in an attack at a small-town Baptist church continue to recover from their injuries while neighbors rally to support them. Residents of Anna, Ill., a town of about 5,000 people in the…

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press presented its inaugural Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism to the long-time executive editor of the independent news service who was forced by health issues to step down last year. "This…

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press presented its inaugural Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism to the long-time executive editor of the independent news service, forced by health issues to step down last year. Greg Warner accepts…

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will stress community at the organization's 20th General Assembly June 24-25, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C. Daniel Vestal, executive coordinator of the Atlanta-based CBF, told members of the group's national Coordinating Council Oct….

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will stress community at the organization's 20th General Assembly June 24-25, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C. Daniel Vestal, executive coordinator of the Atlanta-based CBF, told members of the group's national Coordinating Council Oct….

KERENS—Fire burned down most of the facilities of First Baptist Church in Kerens Oct. 18. The blaze incinerated the sanctuary, children’s area, nursery, office and library. Only the youth and education building remains standing. “Everything was completely destroyed,” Pastor Wes…

TYLER, Texas (ABP) — Residents at a Texas Baptist home for adults with special needs are using their skills to help meet the needs of others — in this case, Eastern European orphans. Three residents of Breckenridge Village of Tyler,…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — An elder statesman who led three Southern Baptist Convention entities for a total of 40 years says the denomination's North American Mission Board is an obsolete bureaucracy that will likely have a diminished role or disappear…