No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary, each party's newly minted front-runner didn't score as well among voters — religious or otherwise — as they did in the previous week's Iowa caucuses, according to exit-poll data. Hillary…

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (ABP) — Baptists in Vietnam will reach a milestone when they hold their first legal national conference Jan. 10-12. An expected 400 people from 13 southern provinces and cities are expected for the meeting in…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The National Association of Evangelicals is under attack again from some prominent Christian conservatives, this time for its involvement in an attempt at Muslim-Christian dialogue. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler, former presidential candidate Gary Bauer…

NAIROBI, Kenya (ABP) — Still-simmering violence sparked by disputed elections in Kenya continues to affect Baptist organizations and missionaries in the previously stable nation. Gunfire erupted Jan. 7 in Limuru, a small town less than half a mile from Kenya…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — There is no evidence of arson in the Dec. 23 fire that consumed the sanctuary of Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., but the destruction was so complete that the exact cause will likely never…

Politics is intoxicating, especially in election season, and especially in a time of such high drama in this particular presidential campaign. In future weeks, I will undoubtedly be writing about the elections of 2008. But in this first offering of…

(ABP) — More than two decades after he helped many Baptist churches breathe new life into discipleship training, Roy Edgemon believes it's time to take a new look at how churches make disciples. In the early 1980s, the Southern Baptist…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court, which is poised to decide if the nation's most widely used form of capital punishment is unconstitutional, seemed preoccupied with the mechanics of lethal injection during arguments in the case Jan. 7. The justices…

UPLAND, Ind. (ABP) — Sheri Klouda sparked denominational — and national — debate when she cried foul last year over her dismissal from teaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, allegedly because of her gender. Ten months later and anticipating a…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Wallace Daniel, a history professor and former dean at Baylor University, has been named provost of Mercer University. The position will become effective July 1. Daniel, a prominent historian, succeeds Horace Fleming in his post as second-highest-ranking…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Come-from-behind wins by overtly Christian presidential candidates in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses will put even more of the spotlight on faith issues in the 2008 election cycle, according to two experts on religion and politics. Baptist…

LIMURU, Kenya (ABP) — Several students attending Wayland Baptist University's Kenya campus have lost family members in the recent violence that has plagued the nation. School administrators are monitoring the situation to determine whether to postpone the start of a…