No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

ATLANTA (ABP) — While known for their historic independence and stubbornness, Baptists from more than 40 American and Canadian denominations and groups will converge under a banner of unity next month in Atlanta. Organizers of the Celebration of a New…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ABP) — Move over, YouTube. Baptists have video cameras. And they're using them, now that they have a “safe” place to share their videos online, says Bill Nix, CEO and president of Axletree Media. Axletree's E-zekiel, a Website…

(ABP) — Dick McCartney, my editor when I worked at the Oklahoma Baptist Messenger, used to wander into my office, bottom feeding for an editorial idea. “What should I view with alarm this week?” he would ask. There are always…

NEW YORK — On Dec. 1, churches across the country will observe World AIDS Day by remembering those infected and affected by AIDS. But in the mid-1980s, AIDS had yet to take center stage in the American consciousness. That's when…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A miniature preaching festival within next year's Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant will feature one of the nation's most famous preachers among a group that is broadly diverse in terms of ethnic background, gender, denominational affiliation…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Longtime GOP Rep. Henry Hyde (Ill.), a champion of the anti-abortion movement who also earned unwanted attention for his role during President Clinton's impeachment, is dead at 83. The office of House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (ABP) — An American Baptist theologian has become the first African-American woman elected president of the nation's largest professional society for religion professors. Emilie Townes, the Andrew Mellon Professor of African-American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity…

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (ABP) — Veteran Southern Baptist journalist Roy Jennings died Nov. 22. He was 83. Jennings is best known in Southern Baptist circles for his work as news editor in the newsrooms at the annual meetings of the Southern…

KANAINAGAR, Bangladesh (ABP) — Baptists joined an international relief effort in Bangladesh after a cyclone killed more than 3,400 people in the Ganges River delta along the Bay of Bengal. Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the…

SWANWICK, England (ABP) — Baptists in Britain have apologized for their role in the slave trade. The Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, observing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, passed an apology…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Although religious conservatives have cheered the Nov. 20 announcement of a breakthrough in stem-cell research, the moral controversy over the practice may not end any time soon. The announcement — made by independent teams of scientists working…

TULSA, Okla. (ABP) — Just days after Richard Roberts resigned from his position as president of Oral Roberts University, regents there are scrambling to find someone else to fill the post. Roberts resigned Nov. 23 in a letter sent to…