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

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — 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 financial institutions to a Pottersville-style nightmare of predatory lenders and seedy businesses that…

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (ABP) — A 2,000-year-old incident continues to set the standard for what it means to be a generous church.  The sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Galveston, Texas, served as a staging area for collecting clothing and…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — 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…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptist relief agencies worked on several fronts to respond to humanitarian needs created by a series of tsunamis, earthquakes and tropical storms in Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. Paul Montacute, director of Baptist World…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has identified a missionary-sending goal big enough to accomplish the nearly 2,000-year-old task of the Great Commission — but lacks a clear fund-raising plan for meeting it, according to an upcoming annual…