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

DALLAS (ABP) — Blessed are they who hit the “delete” key instead of “forward” when it comes to mean-spirited e-mails of questionable veracity, several Christian ethicists suggested. Christians have a responsibility to tell the truth and to tell it in…

NEW YORK (ABP) — The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has apologized for comparing Democratic health-care proposals to policies of Nazi Germany. ERLC President Richard Land reportedly told a Christian Coalition of Florida banquet…

MOSCOW (ABP) — An Oct. 15 meeting between high-level representatives of Russia’s Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox communities resulted in the scheduling of a historic multi-confessional Christian rally for early next year, according to a Russian Baptist press release. The rally,…

MIAMI (ABP) — Cuban authorities say two Baptist leaders held in jail for 11 days in a city on the eastern end of the island are suspected of illegal economic activities. Associated Baptist Press first reported Oct. 13 that Rubén…

BATON ROUGE, La. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana has named a scholarship fund for women in ministry after a member of a Shreveport youth group who died this summer following a church-bus accident. The Louisiana CBF launched…

  SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — An Internet-fueled show of support for a 12-year-old girl killed this summer in a church-bus accident is reaching as far away as Africa, bringing clean water to impoverished children in Malawi. More than 13,000 people…

Mounds of debris clogged Manila's streets after Typhoon Ketsana. (PHOTO/Rand Jenkins) MANILA, Philippines (ABP) — When two typhoons inundated the Philippines recently, 10 Texas Baptist men volunteers packed their rubber boots, leather gloves and bright-yellow shirts and journeyed to the…

  Haggray WASHINGTON (ABP) — Jeffrey Haggray is stepping down after eight years as executive director of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention to become pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Washington. Elected Oct. 11, Haggray, 46, will…

RINGGOLD, Ga. (ABP) — A school board in far northern Georgia upheld a policy Oct. 13 banning cheerleaders from displaying religious banners on the field at high-school football games. Supporters of the signs, banned Sept. 28 by a superintendent who…