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Experts: National security not ensured by torture

ATLANTA (ABP) — Retired high-ranking military officers and national security experts at a national summit on torture Sept. 11 agreed: A policy that permits torture does not make the United States or its troops safer. Steve Xenakis, a…

Legislators call faith leaders to focus on poverty issues

WASHINGTON (ABP) — “Poverty has been forgotten, and it has been ignored for too long,” declared Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) Sept. 9. DeLauro and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) were featured speakers in a teleconference with reporters to kick off a…

The Trinity and other concrete things

By Beth Newman Being a teacher of theology has given me a rather distorted sense of priorities. I suppose that whatever one’s line of work is, though, it will cause some such skewing. My husband once worked in a shop…

EDITORIAL: The fires of persecution

I received the following email late last night. Dear Brothers, I have cancelled my program because of Orissa Crises! Please pray for Orissa Believers because they are now under bad situations and many are killed by VHP (Viswa…

12-year-old Virginia Baptist girl starts web site for ‘girls like her’

MECHANICSVILLE — Not many business owners can boast about being featured in a cable television show on CNBC with Donny Deutsch. But 12-year-old Taylor Ramirez can. At least she could if she were inclined to boast. On Aug. 21,…

David Wilkinson to become ABP’s executive director

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Veteran Baptist communicator David Wilkinson has been named executive director for Associated Baptist Press. David Wilkinson Wilkinson, who currently serves as development director for the Baylor University School of Social Work, will replace current ABP Executive…

Chaplain’s ‘general store’ eases ministry to soldiers

SHARANA, Afghanistan (ABP) — Chaplain Everett Zachary is happy to help provide at least some of the comforts of home to soldiers in unfamiliar Afghanistan through his “general store.” Following 16-hour shifts, soldiers take solace in the tokens of domestic…

Dellanna O’Brien, former
WMU head, dies at 75

FRISCO, Texas (ABP)—Dellanna West O’Brien, who led the Southern Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union through some of its most trying times, died Sept. 7 at age 75. Dellanna O’Brien She suffered what WMU officials described as “a massive cerebral bleed” Sept. 4…

Attacks on Obama, picking Palin rally conservative base at RNC

ST. PAUL, Minn. (ABP) — John McCain completed a long journey to the GOP presidential nomination Sept. 4, capping an abbreviated Republican convention that offered attacks on his Democratic rival, but little talk of divisive social issues. Nonetheless, the Arizona…

Baptist youth from Virginia, Hungary travel together to Leipzig conference

What began as a cost-saving effort — a shared 15-hour, two-day bus trip — for two groups trying to get to Leipzig, Germany, for the Baptist World Alliance youth conference resulted in a unique time of fellowship for youth from…

NAMB sells former RTVC building to energy company

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — The last vestige of a Southern Baptist Convention broadcast ministry that once had garnered an Emmy Award has been sold. Chesapeake Energy Co. purchased the 87,966-square-foot building that housed the former Southern Baptist Radio and…

Baptists continue Gustav relief with wary eyes on Hanna, Ike

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Baptists continued to respond Sept. 4 to needs throughout the south-central part of the country in response to Hurricane Gustav and its windy, drenching aftermath. The storm made landfall Sept. 1 between Grand Isle and Houma,…

Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women

BNG podcasts feature each SBC presidential candidate

What the church got wrong about queer people

Trump admin denies hunger strike at immigrant detention center