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Don’t blame Islam for Fort Hood killings, Baptist leader says

NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — At least one Baptist leader cautioned against attempts to blame the the Nov. 5 Fort Hood massacre on the accused assailant's Islamic faith. Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, said Nov. 8 that assuming…

Portsmouth church collects stuffed toys for Georgia flood victims

Children from Cradock Baptist with some of the stuffed animals collected for the children in Atlanta. PORTSMOUTH — Rob Edwards, pastor of Cradock Baptist in Portsmouth, admits a recent mission project that resulted in the collection of over 750 stuffed…

Church collects toys for flood victims

PORTSMOUTH — Rob Edwards, pastor of Cradock Baptist in Portsmouth, admits a recent mission project that resulted in the collection of over 750 stuffed animals began in an unconventional way — only possible by today’s technology. Children from Cradock Baptist…

Evangelicals look at future

SOUTH HAMILTON, Mass. (RNS) — Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered recently to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward. That evangelicals,…

Muddy Creek celebrates 235 years

POWHATAN — Long before Facebook and the internet, electricity and televisions, and tractors and cars stood a small country church in Powhatan County. Founded before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Muddy Creek Baptist Church is known as one…

BTSR celebrates first homecoming

RICHMOND — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond celebrated its first homecoming on Oct. 16-17. Students mingle in Virginia Hall during homecoming activities at BTSR. Alumni from the classes of 1994 through 2009, current students, faculty and staff gathered to renew…

Leland sets enrollment record

FALLS CHURCH — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has set a record enrollment for the fall semester. Led by an increase in master’s degree students and a record number of diploma students, Leland set an all-time enrollment record…

Additional charges filed against Baptist camp director

HERTFORD, N.C. (ABP) — A North Carolina Baptist camp director arrested in July and charged with two counts of sex offenses against a child now faces additional felony charges. Steve Carter A grand jury in Perquimans County, N.C., handed down…

Religious freedom requires Baptists to hold in tension certain principles

DALLAS (ABP) — Baptists must hold in tension three sets of paradoxical ideas if they are to remain faithful to their heritage and champion freedom, Brent Walker told participants at the T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Award Dinner Oct. 30 in…

Mural enriches children’s ministry

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — On a hot South Texas summer morning, parents and children stream into the Children’s Center at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church for Sunday School. Visitors are greeted warmly, and children are directed to their classrooms: downstairs…

Mural enriches children’s ministry, helps heal wounds for Texas church

(Eric Gay/courtesy of Trinity Baptist Church) SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — On a hot South Texas summer morning, parents and children stream into the Children’s Center at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church for Sunday school. Visitors are greeted warmly, and children…

ABP offers new, revamped e-mail products and social-networking feeds

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press, the nation’s first and only independent news service created by and for Baptists, is set to offer content through several new formats, its leaders announced Nov. 5. The organization — based in Jacksonville,…

Molly Marshall announces 2027 retirement

She preached anyway

It’s time to listen to the prophets

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is no more