How Baptists helped end slavery in the United States

Participants at South Main Baptist Church in Houston for the CBF field personnel commissioning service July 1. (CBF photo) HOUSTON (ABP) — Participants at a July 1 commissioning service in Houston, held in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General…

HOUSTON—Participants at a commissioning service held in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly not only prayed for six field personnel who are assuming new assignments, but also recognized representatives of a ministry network serving in China. Pastor Steve…

HOUSTON (ABP) — Eight months into the fiscal year, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s revenues were 20 percent below budget, the group’s Coordinating Council learned July 1. But — thanks to a plan in place since March to reduce spending to…

PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) — While celebrating the denomination’s broad ethnic, regional and language diversity at their biennial meeting June 26-28, members of the American Baptist Churches USA also exhibited their ideological diversity. ABCUSA General Secretary Roy Medley speaks to delegates…

NEW YORK (ABP) — A Baptist minister and former Wake Forest Divinity School professor has resigned just nine months after becoming senior pastor of New York’s Riverside Church , a historic congregation identified with the 20th-century Social Gospel movement that…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A Kentucky Baptist university has, at the last minute, withdrawn its invitation to host a youth mission team from Texas after the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped their church for its toleration of homosexuals. Brent Beasley,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist church in Tennessee canceled Sunday and Wednesday services after cutting short a camp because children were getting sick with flu-like symptoms. Long Hollow Baptist Church, a 5,000-member church that meets in three campuses…

  Deborah Loftis takes over as executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in November. RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist woman has been tapped to head an organization of church leaders and artists dedicated…

DALLAS (ABP) — Buckner International temporarily is suspending travel by mission groups to Honduras in the wake of a coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office. Officials with the Dallas-based orphan care ministry announced June 29 they are halting…