Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (ABP) — Baptists from around the world recalled the birth of their movement 400 years ago during a July 30 worship service held a few blocks from the site of what is generally recognized as the first Baptist…

EDE, Netherlands (ABP) — Members of the Baptist World Alliance General Council affirmed John Upton as the organization’s presidential nominee July 31. Assuming he is elected by the group’s quinquennial Baptist World Congress meeting next year in Honolulu, Upton will…

EDE, Netherlands — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance. If elected at the BWA’s world congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year term to…

EDE, Netherlands (ABP) — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance. If elected at the BWA’s Baptist World Congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Organizations that advocate the separation of church and state say they are concerned about President Obama's pick as Secretary of the Army. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, said July 30…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The head of the Interfaith Alliance has called for a new national discussion about marriage not as a religious institution but a civil right. Welton Gaddy Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance and an ordained Baptist…

EDE, Netherlands (ABP) — The story of an African-Caribbean Baptist slave's 19th-century revolt holds theologically liberating implications for all Christians, an international Baptist scholar said July 29. Presenting a paper as part of the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering in…

CLARIFICATION: This story has been reissued with a replacement paragraph 13. The original story summarized a point in the paper that did not accurately convey the author's intent. EDE, Netherlands (ABP) — A Latina theologian says overreaction to Catholic veneration…