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CBF riverboat ministry provides health care in Southeast Asia

ATLANTA (ABP) — For one Cooperative Baptist Fellowship medical worker in Southeast Asia — whose full name and specific location cannot be used because of security concerns — her missionary work takes place on a riverboat that doubles as her transient home and a…

Obama adviser says creation-care movement needs pastors

DULUTH, Ga. (ABP) — A member of President Obama’s advisory council on faith-based partnerships says pastors are key to winning the hearts and minds of evangelicals when it comes to caring for the environment. Joel Hunter, pastor of Northland Church in Lakewood,…

Mo. convention revises, attempts to revive Windermere lawsuit

CAMDENTON, Mo. (ABP) — The Missouri Baptist Convention will try once again to reclaim the land owned by Windermere Baptist Conference Center — as well as property the agency once owned — by amending and re-filing a lawsuit that was recently dismissed. The…

Baptist Okla. governor must decide whether to OK Decalogue monument

OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) — Oklahoma’s Baptist governor faces a monumental decision whether to sign or veto a Ten Commandments bill that some Baptist leaders say violates religious liberty. Brad Henry (PHOTO/Okla. Governor’s Office) Gov. Brad Henry (D) has five days to decide on the…

Conservatives divided over Miss California USA controversy

GROVE CITY, Pa. (ABP) — Racy Internet photos have prompted some social conservatives to question the Religious Right’s embrace of Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean as a model Christian. The Miss California USA pageant winner became an instant celebrity April…

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"The Yoked Team" is the title I have selected for my blog because living in relationship is at once the greatest blessing and the greatest challenge of human life. Of course, the more intimate the relationship, the greater the benefits…

The Yoked Team

CBF church calls second woman pastor

Julie Merritt Lee, pastoral resident at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, takes over as pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Hendersonville, N.C., in July. HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — A North Carolina Baptist church has called its second woman pastor. Providence…

North Carolina church calls second woman pastor

Julie Merritt Lee, pastoral resident at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, takes over as pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Hendersonville, N.C., in July.HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — A North Carolina Baptist church has called its second woman pastor — an…

On becoming an ordinary Christian

By Benjamin Cole When you grow up in Grayson County, Texas, there are two events on your annual calendar that demand your attention. The first is the annual “Battle of the Ax” wherein the Sherman Bearcats take on the Denison…

CBF missionaries address needs of India’s marginalized Banjara people

(ABP) — When Macarena Aldape cleans a wound or treats a rash, her Banjara patients often ask her why she is helping them. The Banjara people’s socio-economic status often limits their access to health care, education and jobs with decent…

Conservative ‘National Day of Prayer’ supporters upset over Obama snub

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Conservative organizers of National Day of Prayer-related events expressed disappointment that President Obama chose not to mark the day May 7 in the same elaborate fashion as his predecessor. But some groups that support strong church-state separation…

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