Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

ABILENE, Texas (ABP) — Hardin-Simmons University trustees elected as their school's president Lanny Hall, president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, and a past president and chancellor at Hardin-Simmons. Hall will be the 15th president in Hardin-Simmons' 118-year history,…

Here's one of the posters at the center of the lawsuit. (ADF) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — An elementary school in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., is being sued for censoring the word "God" out of posters promoting a student-led prayer event. A…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University Regents chairman Howie Batson announced March 5 that he had named 14 current members of the school’s governing board to a committee charged with searching for the university’s next president. He also named 10…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — The founding dean of the Wake Forest University Divinity School is stepping down next year, school officials announced March 5. Bill Leonard will retire from that post June 30, 2010. But he will continue to teach full-time as…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Members of the Baptist World Alliance’s executive committee heard a sobering financial report detailing investment losses over the last year, agreed to slash the group’s budget, gave initial approval to organizational changes and met BWA’s new…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Liberty University will remain gun-free, trustees at the Baptist school founded by the late Jerry Falwell decided March 3. Last year, Liberty’s chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus asked university officials to change the…

Left to Right: Meg Thomsen, program coordinator of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer, and Judith Curry, Georgia Tech professor, listen during the plenary session of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A coalition of religious leaders who oppose the United States’ use of torture in the fight against terrorism called March 3 for a “truth commission” to investigate government policy and allegations of inhumane actions against terrorism detainees…