How Baptists helped end slavery in the United States

ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has urged religious leaders to repudiate teachings that he says justify cruelty to women. Carter, a Nobel laureate, described in an article in the British newspaper The Observer his "painful and difficult" decision…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has urged religious leaders to repudiate teachings that he says justify cruelty to women. Carter, a Nobel laureate, described in an article in the British newspaper The Observer his “painful and difficult” decision…

SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — A teenager from Shreveport, La., continued to fight for her life in a Mississippi hospital four days after a July 12 bus crash that killed one and injured 22 passengers on their way to a church…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — David Rogers, son of the legendary preacher and Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, is resigning after 19 years as an SBC missionary to Spain. Rogers, a blogger who has written extensively about his disagreement with…

  Steve Carter and wife, as pictured on camp website. HERTFORD, N.C. (ABP) — A Baptist association in North Carolina is standing by a camp director indicted July 13 on two counts of engaging in sexual activities with a child….

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A pioneer in the Baptist peacemaking movement died July 11 while visiting his daughter and granddaughters in Asheville, N.C., ending a long battle with cancer. Robert Broome, 66, of Louisville, Ky., is credited with coming up…