Why coercive religious politics undermine Christianity and democracy

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — Global Women established its first endowment, created a funding plan for its projects and adopted next year’s projects at a recent board meeting. Gathering in San Antonio, board members established an endowment to ensure the future…

HOUSTON (ABP) — Baptists continued Sept. 17 to send relief teams into hard-hit areas along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which battered the area five days earlier. In the storm’s path, Houston Baptist…

HOUSTON (ABP) — Baptists continued Sept. 17 to send relief teams into hard-hit areas along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which battered the area five days earlier. In the storm’s path, Houston Baptist…

PLANO, Texas (ABP) — Deception is never an appropriate stance for mission workers, a former employee of both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the International Mission Board insists. But that’s not the same as telling everything one knows or does,…

(ABP) — Christian workers who serve in countries closed to traditional missions outreach should tell the truth — but that doesn’t necessarily mean full disclosure, some Christian ethicists and missiologists say. “It is not correct to lie about the reason…

(ABP) — Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason for the trip — ministry to…

(ABP) — Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason for the trip — ministry to…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A coalition of religious leaders are asking politicians in this election year to address what they say is a moral scandal: Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, much of the region is still far…

GONAIVES, Haiti (ABP) — Even as the attention of Americans turns to the disaster caused by Hurricane Ike in their own country, Baptist agencies are responding to  massive devastation across the Caribbean islands, battered by three successive tropical cyclones since…

GALVESTON, Texas (ABP) — Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts Sept. 12, Baptist groups were mobilizing supplies and relief workers for the disaster zone. The massive storm — rated as a strong…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy. The poll of 600 Southern white evangelicals was released Sept….