AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

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 in…

BLUEFIELD, Va. (ABP) — Bluefield College’s aim to be a Christ-centered institution took a new twist last summer when a Taiwanese Kung Fu master made a profession of faith following the martial arts seminar he had come to lead at…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) – Kirby Smith has his life back. After years of struggling with clinical depression — what he calls “a hell on earth” — the Virginia Baptist pastor has discovered in both medical and psychological treatment a way to…

DALLAS—Up to 25 percent of the U.S. population has a diagnosable mental illness. Christians agree 100 percent of those people deserve to know Christ, but few churches reach out to them. Believed to be the only church that counts the…

DALLAS (ABP) — As many as 25 percent of all Americans have diagnosable mental illnesses. Christians agree 100 percent of those people deserve to know Christ, but few churches reach out to them. Believed to be the only church that…

(ABP) — Congregations often view their pastors as strong, stable shepherds, but many ministers experience a disconnect between the image they project and the mental and emotional battles to which they are subject. “I have never met a clergy person,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Living with depression — or any other form of mental illness — is like viewing life “through a glass darkly,” according to Jessy Grondin, a student in Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School. “It distorts how you see…

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…