Carlson calls for Huckabee’s removal for not defending congressman

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…