At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

ATLANTA (ABP) — Recently appointed as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel in Belize, North Carolina natives Eric and Julie Maas serve as the directors of the Western Region Baptist Training Center. Started in the 1980s by Baptist missionaries, the 10-acre-camp…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — Police in Springfield, Mo., are investigating the suspected embezzlement of more than $500,000 from a nursing school operated jointly by a Baptist university and a Catholic hospital. The Springfield News-Leader reported March 11 that St. John's College…

This photo of Fred Winters and his family appears on First Baptist Church's Facebook page. MARYVILLE, Ill. (ABP) — One week after its senior pastor was shot and killed while delivering a sermon, an Illinois church will welcome as its…

{youtube}Vx8mv87e6wE{/youtube} RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) – There’s a new resident at Lakewood Manor, one of Virginia Baptist Homes’ retirement communities. Paro is by far the furriest member of the Lakewood community and he takes his meals through a battery charger, not…

BELTON, S.C. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist pastor in South Carolina is facing arson charges after allegedly setting fire to his own church building March 8. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced March 9 the arrest of Christopher Daniels,…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — An Arkansas lawmaker says she will reintroduce a bill to allow concealed weapons in churches after a deadly Illinois church shooting March 8. State Rep. Beverly Pyle (R-Cedarville) originally introduced a measure Jan. 29 to remove "any…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — With a March 9 executive order, President Obama made official what many scientists had long anticipated — and many religious conservatives had long feared — lifting his predecessor’s effective ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research….

HARTFORD, Conn. (ABP) — Baptists may be the grayest of any major religious group in America, according to a study released March 9 by Trinity College of Connecticut. The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, the third set of data in…

Glenn Hinson lectured twice on what he learned in 50 years of teaching and what he projects for the future of theological education.LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — For Christianity to remain relevant in a world influenced by modern science and technology,…