How Baptists helped end slavery in the United States

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A group of under-40 evangelicals attending a leadership meeting in Texas announced April 28 a new initiative to mobilize American Christians to eliminate nuclear weapons. “We have all heard about this broadening of the evangelical agenda,”…

BENTON, Ark. (ABP) — David Pierce, who for nearly three decades has been minister of music at the First Baptist Church of Benton, Ark., was arrested April 24 for sexual indecency with a minor, according to officials. The Saline County,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — In 2008, the Southern Baptist Convention showed a net loss in total membership for the second straight year and baptized the lowest number of new members since 1987, according to annual statistics compiled by the denomination’s publishing-and-research…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — With an African-American population estimated as high as 50 million, the “blight of racism” is “still an epidemic assailing” the United States, writer Maya Angelou said April 24 at the Southeast regional gathering of the New…

Jimmy Carter speaks at the New Baptist Covenant Southeast meeting. (Ken Bennett/Wake Forest University) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said baptisms are declining in the Southern Baptist Convention because doctrinal bickering gives Christianity a bad name. Carter,…

Jimmy Carter speaks at the New Baptist Covenant Southeast meeting. (Ken Bennett/Wake Forest University) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said baptisms are declining in the Southern Baptist Convention because doctrinal bickering gives Christianity a bad name. Carter,…