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Obama’s historic breakthrough

By David Gushee The Democratic primaries are finally over, as Barack Obama has barely edged out Hillary Clinton for the nomination. This is an upset of epic proportions. It was unimaginable 18 months ago. The Illinois senator’s victory over his…

IMB supporters release statement opposing missionary guidelines

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — A group of current and former missionaries, former mission-board trustees and pastors is calling for the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board to reverse controversial guidelines for missionaries enacted in 2005. The guidelines prohibit the appointment…

Arkansas Baptist school falls short of World Series crown

SAUGET, Ill. (ABP) — An Arkansas Baptist college's baseball team fell just barely short of claiming the NCAA Division II crown May 31. The Ouachita Baptist University Tigers couldn't overcome a five-run lead built up by the top-ranked Mount Olive…

Polygamist sect’s children sing, write poems to thank Baptists

GONZALES, Texas (ABP) — Children seized from a polygamist sect's compound and temporarily entrusted to a Texas Baptist child-care agency bid farewell to their former caretakers May 31 with poetry, song and strong emotion. In anticipation of a court ruling…

Politics and the power of the Cross

By Beth Newman Sen. Barack Obama’s recent resignation of his membership in Trinity United Church of Christ was probably inevitable, but it is a melancholy occasion nonetheless. Since I cannot know the likely Democratic presidential nominee’s heart, I don’t know…

CBF General Assembly devotes prayer time to discerning way

ATLANTA (ABP) – How does God want us to use our resources? Finding an answer to that and related questions will be a priority at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly this year. Leaders will seek input from attendees at…

Obama departure from Trinity garners concern, criticism

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Religious and political leaders are expressing both concern and criticism in the wake of Barack Obama's recent break with the church that brought him to faith 20 years ago — but has brought him headaches on the…

Sect’s children begin leaving Baptist caregiver’s custody

DALLAS (ABP) — After court rulings declaring that the state of Texas had insufficient cause to keep them from their parents, more than 400 children taken from a compound owned by the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints began returning to their…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for May 29, 2008

STAFF CHANGES • Israel Gwyn, to Oak Grove Church, Cana, as pastor. • Kenneth Compton, resigning as pastor of Fountain Creek Church, Emporia, to accept the pastorate of a church in North Carolina. • Randy Prouse, resigning as pastor of…

Abundant field of SBC candidates may signal relaxed political reins

INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) — Candidates are lining up two-by-two for this year's Southern Baptist Convention presidency — two big-church pastors, two small-church pastors, two former missionaries. For the first time in almost three decades, six men will be nominated for the…

Pass the popcorn

Christians tend to hear the words ‘popular culture' and react as if spitting something yucky from their mouths,” said David Dark, author of Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons and Other Pop Culture Icons and The Gospel…

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