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Baylor students cycle to Alaska for suicide awareness

On Thursday, May 15, five Baylor University students, who created the Alive Campaign after a close friend attempted suicide, began a 4,500-mile bike journey over 83 days from Waco, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise awareness about suicide prevention. (L…

The path to discernment on homosexuality

By David Gushee I have sought to suggest in a handful of columns in recent months that a rethinking of the church’s stance on homosexuality is needed. Reading in the scholarly literature, one sees that some very fine Christian minds…

Impacting Port Sulphur: Virginia Baptists continue to support region devastated by hurricane

RICHMOND—In the early morning hours when most in the surrounding community was still sleeping, 10 members of North Run Baptist Church in Richmond departed on a 21-hour Impact NOW! trip to Port Sulphur, La., in lower Plaquemines Parish. Among the…

In run-up to Beijing Olympics, China increasing persecution of Christians

WASHINGTON (ABP) — While China appears to be making some religious-liberty concessions on the eve of the Olympics, critics in the United States say Chinese persecution of Christians in the country is on the rise. China is on the U.S….

Prosecutor asks international court to charge al-Bashir with genocide

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (ABP) — In what would become the world’s first prosecution of a sitting head of state for crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court’s head prosecutor is asking that Sudan’s leader be charged with genocide. Luis Moreno-Ocampo,…

Church observers ask: Where have all the good men gone?

DALLAS (ABP) – It’s not just your imagination. Men are disappearing from the church. According to the Barna Research Group, there are 11 million to 13 million more American women who are born again than there are born-again men. While…

ABC-USA proposes changes to focus on mission, churches

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — Leaders of the American Baptist Churches USA are proposing changes to the denomination’s governing structure that aim to encourage greater missional empowerment and broader involvement of affiliated churches. The ABC General Board considered the proposal…

What the church can learn from tomatoes

By Beth Newman On a recent Sunday, the gospel lesson in our church was Matthew’s account of the parable of the sower and, more significantly, the different soils into which the seed is cast. A little reflection of the fate…

Declaration responds to torture-policy shift

(ABP) — For years in foreign-policy circles, the United States was regarded as the world’s premier protector of individual liberty, promoter of democracy and champion of human rights. But terrorist attacks on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001, created a…

Daniel Vestal counters BP column that said CBF not ‘truly Christian’

ATLANTA (ABP) — Why would some Baptist writers go out of their way to create the impression that the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is not even Christian? CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal said he is trying to answer that question after…

John Templeton, religious philanthropist, dead at 95

NASSAU, Bahamas (ABP) — Sir John Marks Templeton, religious philanthropist and founder of an annual award that honors innovation in religion, died of pneumonia July 8 in Nassau, Bahamas. He was 95. Perhaps most widely known for the Templeton Prize…

Carson-Newman names Baylor Provost Randall O’Brien president

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. (ABP) — Veteran Baylor University professor and administrator Randall O’Brien has been named president of Carson-Newman College. Trustees of the Jefferson City, Tenn., school elected him July 8. O’Brien will assume full-time duties Jan. 1, 2009, after…

Lindsey Graham spoke at Baptist church a week before his death

When leaders know better but choose a different path

On the death of Lindsey Graham

Farewell, Three Amigos