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Reconciliation, collaboration among Baptist Border Crossing themes

LIBERTY, Mo. (ABP) — Speakers challenged nearly 1,000 ministers and laypeople from several Baptist denominations and Midwestern states to become agents of reconciliation, collaboration and justice during the Baptist Border Crossing April 2-4 at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty,…

Obama rounds out appointments to faith council; Dungy not on list

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The White House announced 10 new appointees April 6 to a diverse panel that will advise President Obama on issues related to government partnerships with religious and other community-service organizations. The appointments round out the Obama’s 25-member…

Top Army chaplain raises Jewish ire with call for fasting during Passover

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Army's chief of chaplains is being criticized for a proclamation calling for prayer and fasting on April 8, which coincides with the first night of Passover. The Jewish holiday — one of the faith's most important…

On marriage, time to separate civil from ecclesiastical

By Jonathan Lindsey In this 400th-anniversary year of Baptist history it’s time for Baptists to take the lead — and invite other ecclesiastical bodies to join them — in removing one of the final vestiges of theocracy in the United…

EDITORIAL: Finding an antidote to biblical dummies?

Did you hear the one about little Johnny’s Sunday school teacher talking to the boy’s father, a deacon? The teacher good-naturedly approached the dad in the church parking lot. “You’ll never believe what happened in Sunday school,” he began. “I…

SECOND OPINION: Saying no to Sunday church

For five decades and in growing numbers, American Christians have been saying no to Sunday church. I think it is time we listened. We have labeled them “unchurched,” “nonbelievers,” “former Christians,” “happy pagans,” “lost,” and a “mission field” that’s “ripe…

HERITAGE: Keep me

‘Keep me a hundred years, and you shall find a use for me.” In 1885 William H. Whitsitt penned this line on the inside front cover of his secret diary. The diarist painstakingly and neatly recorded his activities and his…

Obama rounds out appointments to faith council; Dungy not on list

Opinion: God wrote a book — How the Bible was made

(ABP) — My first Bible was a red King James Version New Testament given to me by the Gideons when I was in the fifth grade. I took it home and read its first words: “The book of the generation…

Train up a child: It takes parents and churches working together

DALLAS (ABP) — Parents must take the lead in guiding children to love and learn the Bible, but the church should help, according to specialists in children’s ministry. The process begins at birth, directing children toward God long before they…

Top 100 Virginia Baptist churches in 2008 per capita gifts listed

Mappsville Baptist Church in Mappsville led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in per capita contributions to total Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 churches in total per capita CM gifts were Beulah Baptist…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear

Reconciliation, collaboration among Baptist Border Crossing themes

Obama rounds out appointments to faith council; Dungy not on list

Top Army chaplain raises Jewish ire with call for fasting during Passover

On marriage, time to separate civil from ecclesiastical

EDITORIAL: Finding an antidote to biblical dummies?

SECOND OPINION: Saying no to Sunday church

HERITAGE: Keep me

Obama rounds out appointments to faith council; Dungy not on list

Opinion: God wrote a book — How the Bible was made

Train up a child: It takes parents and churches working together

Top 100 Virginia Baptist churches in 2008 per capita gifts listed

Top 100 Virginia Baptist churches in 2008 per capita gifts listed

Pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel symbols to be banned after British government backs NHS antisemitism reforms

Catholic Archdiocese Fires Prominent Exorcist After Unexpected Claim About Demons

Draft of King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ found at Virginia seminary archives

Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride

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What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear