It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
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…
(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…
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…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (ABP) — A small Southern Baptist church near St. Joseph, Mo., is reportedly standing by its pastor, who is accused of soliciting sex over the Internet with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. Robert Black, 40,…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Baptist ethicist involved in a religious campaign to build a moral consensus against America using torture is welcoming comments by the Southern Baptist Convention's head ethicist that waterboarding is a form of torture and morally wrong. Richard…
By Miguel De La Torre No one reads or interprets the Bible literally — regardless as to what they profess. To do so is simplistic, if not dangerous. All of us read our bias, our theology, and our social location into the…
AUGUSTA, Maine (ABP) — With its governor’s signature May 6, Maine became the fifth state in the nation — and the fourth in New England — to legalize same-sex marriage. Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed the bill shortly after the…
AUGUSTA, Maine (ABP) — With its governor’s signature May 6, Maine became the fifth state in the nation — and the fourth in New England — to legalize same-sex marriage. Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed the bill shortly after the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Missouri's Supreme Court has declined to review an appeals-court ruling that a Baptist conference center on the Lake of the Ozarks acted legally when it changed articles of incorporation to switch to a self-perpetuating board…
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court denied the Missouri Baptist Convention’s request to rehear its case against Windermere Baptist Conference Center on May 5. The convention has now exhausted its options to overturn Cole County Judge Richard Callahan’s March…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — The Missouri Supreme Court denied the Missouri Baptist Convention’s request to rehear its case against Windermere Baptist Conference Center on May 5. The convention has now exhausted its options to overturn Cole County Judge Richard…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — With a May 5 vote, the District of Columbia Council may have put an issue before Congress that many House and Senate leaders would just as soon avoid right now: Gay marriage. The top legislative body for…
