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DALLAS (ABP) — When the nice young couple presenting themselves for membership in your church is shacking up, how should the congregation respond? Churches likely will face this and other tough questions as society’s definition of family continues to evolve….

LEWISVILLE, Texas (ABP) — For many couples, it’s like the seconds before a new year’s exciting beginning. For a few, it’s more like the panic of watching a ticking bomb. Newlywed Brooks Monroe insists counting down the days to his…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In all of America’s brouhaha over whether legalizing same-sex marriage will sully the institution’s sanctity, very few Christians are asking one important question: When — and why — did the government get into the sanctification business in…

ATLANTA (ABP) — In response to controversial comments at the recent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, a group of younger CBF supporters has called for an end to “old rhetoric” and for renewed attention to the world’s needs. Seven leaders…

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (ABP) — In appreciation for “consistent and generous support” for Ouachita Baptist University, trustees named the Arkansas school’s social-science division for Buddy Sutton, a prominent Little Rock attorney. Trustees voted June 12 to honor Sutton, a long-time Ouachita…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Trustees of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond have elected Israel Galindo as the 19-year-old school’s new dean. Galindo, a Christian education professor at the Virginia seminary, was elected June 17. He replaces Mike Harton, who has…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) –The woman came over from China expecting love, marriage and a better life, according to a speaker on human trafficking June 19, during a workshop session at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Memphis, Tenn. But…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Baptist supporters of women in church leadership looked back on 25 years of triumphs and setbacks June 18 as Baptist Women in Ministry celebrated its first quarter-century in Memphis, Tenn. About 150 people gathered at Memphis’…

DALLAS (ABP) — Baptists around the nation are doing something constructive to remember a day characterized by destruction. In memory of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will host a day of mission projects…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) – “Missional” engagement will have a high priority in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of the future, if comments from participants at the group’s annual General Assembly are any indication. During its June 19-20 meeting in Memphis, Tenn.,…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — An update on how the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is helping achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals — a commitment the organization’s top decision-making body made last fall — topped the agenda of the CBF’s annual…