No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

ATLANTA (ABB) — Baptist unity took center stage during the opening night of the New Baptist Covenant convocation in Atlanta Jan. 30. About 10,000 African-American, Anglo, Asian-American and Hispanic Baptists gathered at the urging of former President Jimmy Carter and…

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (ABP) — The 2000 suicide attack of the USS Cole in Yemen made Sunny Mitchell realize she wanted to become a Navy chaplain. “I knew some of the sailors on the Cole, and I wanted to be…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and best-selling author Rick Warren, both ordained Southern Baptist pastors, will speak about how to use the pulpit to address political, social and cultural issues at a preaching conference in April….

ATLANTA (ABP) — If a spirit of unity prevails at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, organizers of the historic interracial meeting said Jan. 30, they will consider the gathering a success. And participants in the event will remain…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Wade Burleson, the prominent pastor and blogger who railed against what he saw as an excessive narrowing of parameters within the Southern Baptist Convention, has resigned from his position as a trustee of the SBC's International…

Recent reports about the age of messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention have alerted some to the “graying” of the convention. Specifically, the percentage of messengers aged 18-39 dropped from a high of 35.9 percent in 1985 to a low…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In his valedictory State of the Union address Jan. 28, President Bush attempted to cement his legacy on a handful of issues important to religious voters while much of the nation focused on the race to choose…

DALLAS (ABP) — Mission work, Christian education and advocacy are the three tasks that can unite Baptists in the Lone Star state, according to the nominee for executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Randel Everett, pastor of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Exit polls showed that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama swept all religious categories of voters — from the most faithful to the less devout — in dominating the South Carolina Democratic primary Jan. 26. However, the media consortium…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An independent federal panel is asking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to intervene in the case of the latest Afghan sentenced to death under the nation's blasphemy laws. Michael Cromartie, chairman of the United States Commission on…

NEW YORK (ABP) — The Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant meeting will feature some notable guests: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Tony Campolo and John Grisham, to name a few. But after the star-studded dust settles, what will…