At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

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…

BOSTON (ABP) — According to a new study, people who live in states with high church-attendance rates buy as much Internet pornography as their more secularized counterparts — but they are less likely to subscribe to an adult website on…

CHICAGO (ABP) — Calls for embattled Sen. Roland Burris to resign from the Senate are dividing his fellow Illinois Democrats along racial lines. Burris, the only black United States senator, is under fire for conflicting statements about his relationship with disgraced…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Obama's first proposed budget signals a dramatic shift in prioritizing domestic poverty, centrist and liberal Christian leaders said in a teleconference with reporters March 2. Nonetheless, some expressed concerns that portions of the proposal did not…