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Baptist churches in Texas, California
draw gay-rights supporters’ protests

DALLAS (ABP) — About 100 people stood outside First Baptist Church of Dallas Nov. 9 to protest a sermon publicized on the church marquee with the title, “Why gay is not OK.” “To say in today’s culture that homosexuality is…

Baptist youth minister charged with child pornography

MONROE, Conn. (ABP) — An American Baptist youth minister in Connecticut was arrested on child-pornography charges after a nude photo of a 15-year-old girl he was counseling was found on his church computer. David Esarey, 30, was arraigned Nov. 5…

Evangelicals and the Obama era

By David Gushee I began this election year with The Future of Faith in American Politics, a book arguing that there is an emerging political center in the white evangelical community. This center breaks with the evangelical right in that…

Dobson claims Obama election
sets pro-lifers back severely

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (ABP) — Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Nov. 6 that Barack Obama’s election could set America’s pro-life movement back 35 years. In the first of a two-part broadcast on his radio show, Dobson admitted…

Black Baptist leaders: Obama win
moves us closer to King’s dream

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Black Baptist leaders said Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American president of the United States does not mean Martin Luther King’s dream of racial justice has been fully realized — but it’s a lot closer…

Experts: Obama win may signal
start of religious-voter shift

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Barack Obama’s election as president could signal waning influence by the Christian Right in American politics, according to several experts — but his improvements over previous Democratic nominees’ appeal to religious voters could also simply be a…

Baptists, bigotry, and Barack Obama

By Benjamin Cole The election of 2008 was historic, and now it is history. A tough-fought campaign has ended with a number of firsts for the country, the most notable of which is the highest number of votes — and the…

Father, Son & Who?: Baptists struggle with concept of the Trinity

Ghost!” a 5-year-old screeched as he stood in the pew and clutched his mother's neck. “Mama, the preacher said there's a ghost in here!” Although most Baptists in the sanctuary laughed at the outburst, likely at least a few also…

Remembering our Marjorie

Marjorie Lee Bailey was uniquely equipped with God-given gifts for one of the most challenging places of ministry. In 1966 she began service as director of religious activities and chaplain at the Virginia women's prison in Goochland. In 1977, in…

SECOND OPINION: Where in the world are you?

A GPS makes it possible to always know where you've been, where you are and where you're headed — sort of the past, present and future of your life from a visual and geographic perspective. You never have to be…

OUT LOUD

“My goal is not to make laws Christian but to make government as small as possible so you can be as biblically Christian as you so choose.” Meghan Allen The Liberty University student, who hopes to become a lawyer, was…

RIGHT OR WRONG?

In a recent sermon, our pastor said, “Our evangelism must be ethical.” What does that mean? Your pastor's sermon made two important observations. First, Christians must realize we face a culture that is wary and unresponsive to slick salesmanship and…

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