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Shreveport church focuses prayer on daughter of church staff member

JACKSON, Miss. (ABP) — Five of six victims still hospitalized after a deadly July 12 church-bus accident were improving two days after the wreck, but the next 72 hours remained critical for a church staff member's daughter who suffered severe…

Wiley Drake wins round in legal battle challenging Obama’s presidency

SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist Convention official won a small legal victory July 13 when a federal judge said he would listen to the merits of a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency. Wiley…

Road to Recovery: Set Free Church breaks the chains of addiction

RIVERSIDE, Mo. (ABP) — Reggie Carter doesn’t look like a typical pastor. He sits behind his desk, wearing a black T-shirt and jeans. His Bluetooth mobile-phone headset rests on his ear, allowing him to quickly respond to calls about the…

Road to Recovery: The 12 Steps

(ABP) — This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior: Step 1 We admitted we were powerless over our…

Road to Recovery: Churches help with overcoming addictions

COMANCHE, Texas (ABP) — Terry Walker fell to his knees in the shower stall of a South Texas substance-abuse-treatment center, crying out to God for release from the chains of addiction. “God blessed me with the gift of desperation,” Walker…

Churches affected by FCC changes on wireless-microphone frequencies

DESOTO, Texas (ABP) — While the digitization of television signals June 12 garnered wide publicity, many churches were left unaware their wireless microphone systems also were affected. The Federal Communications Commission auctioned off the lower half of the 700-megahertz band…

Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck

SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — A church-bus crash that killed one teenager and critically injured another July 12 could have been worse if a transport bus carrying National Guard soldiers had not come upon the accident scene nearly immediately, according to…

Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck of church bus

A Christian and a conservative

By David Sanders By the 1970s, many Christian conservatives had rightly decided that the counterculture revolutions of the previous decade had taken a moral toll on the country. Something, they reasoned, had to be done about it. What started as…

Church bus headed toward Passport overturns, killing teen

MERIDIAN, Miss. (ABP) — One youth was reported dead and a busload of teenagers and adult sponsors injured when a bus carrying them flipped en route to a youth camp sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship partner ministry Passport. A…

Kingdom theology makes a comeback

By David Gushee The past decade or so has witnessed a surge of Christian theological work that features the kingdom of God as its central theme. This is certainly not the only current trend in theology or ethics. On the…

Obama to nominate prominent Christian geneticist to head NIH

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The White House announced July 8 that President Obama would tap a prominent Christian geneticist to a top government post. Obama announced that he would nominate Francis Collins, one of the world’s most famous thinkers on the relationship…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts