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Tough economic times don’t dim lights on Living Christmas Trees

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of four Christmas-themed stories in a feature package produced by ABP and its New Voice Media partners. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (ABP) — Rather than cutting back on lavish Christmas programs this year due to the economy,…

Have yourself a simple little Christmas

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of four Christmas-themed stories in a feature package produced by ABP and its New Voice Media partners. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — It’s time to “Unplug the Christmas machine,” states a book with the same…

Fair trade fights poverty, allows gift giving with a clear conscience

A Cambodian woman makes a bag sold by Trade as One in Good News Goods markets, as well as online. (PHOTOS courtesy of Trade as One) EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of four Christmas-themed stories in a feature package produced…

Bush administration leaves major mark on faith-based funding, experts say

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush’s administration and a host of court rulings have indelibly altered the way that the federal government relates to religious charities, according to an analysis by experts on the subject. “The heart — the core —…

A doomed, reactionary church?

By David Gushee The act of reflecting this week, in class, on the development of Catholic social ethics resonated in an unexpected way with the situation facing Christians today. It became clearer than ever to me that when Christians become…

Churches with WMU stronger supporters of SBC

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Southern Baptist churches that have Woman's Missionary Union organizations support the denomination's missions programs at significantly higher levels than congregations without WMU, according to an analysis of reported church giving. Tensions surfaced in recent years between…

Study says churches with WMU stronger supporters of SBC

Baptists in Russian city claim bureaucrats restricting religious freedom

MOSCOW (ABP) — Baptists in the city of Lipetsk, Russia, claim local authorities are using bureaucratic methods to restrict their activity. The provincial capital 235 miles southeast of Moscow has in recent years become a focal point of tension between…

Longtime Southern Baptist pastor Frank Pollard dies

SAN FRANCISCO (ABP) — Frank Pollard, one of Southern Baptists' best-known preachers and leaders, died Nov. 30 at his home in San Francisco. Pollard, 74, twice served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., for a combined total…

Ethiopian eununchs and reading the text from the margins

By Miguel De La Torre As a man of color, I always read the story of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8 with an emphasis on Africa. When we think of the gospel message moving beyond the Jews, we usually…

Former SBC missionary accused of embezzling IMB funds now suspected in insurance scam

GULF SHORES, Ala. (ABP) — The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention declined to press criminal embezzlement charges in 2005 against a man now accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an Alabama insurance scam. According…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children