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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Some Baptists in this state say the Florida Baptist Convention is intimidating and demonizing churches that believe in Calvinism — and doing it with the churches' own money. Convention executive director John Sullivan last week sent…

DALLAS (ABP) — Consummate counselor, powerful preacher, lasting leader. These are descriptions often used to characterize a respected pastor. Avid fisherman and beach bum are not. But Bruce Prindle, pastor of First Baptist Church in Midlothian, Texas, values fishing and…

NEW YORK (ABP) — Shortly before the immigration-reform bill failed a crucial test vote June 7, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) religious leaders decried an aspect of the complex compromise proposal they view as anti-family. The Senate rejected a Clinton-sponsored amendment…

DALLAS (ABP) — Rick Warren, heralded as “America's new people's pastor,” will speak Oct. 29 at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting. David Coffey, president of the Baptist World Alliance, will also speak at the meeting in Amarillo,…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Jonathan Falwell, son of the late Jerry Falwell, will become pastor of the 24,000-member church his dad founded more than 50 years ago. Members of Thomas Road Baptist Church elected Jonathan Falwell, 40, in a unanimous…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — On national television June 4, John Edwards admitted that he sins every day, Barack Obama said there's “a biblical injunction” to give prisoners the tools they need to rehabilitate themselves, and Hillary Clinton said the support of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Evolution, abortion rights and other issues important to religious conservatives reared their heads once again in the third debate between Republican presidential hopefuls June 5. Following a question that made headlines at the first GOP debate a…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas has made public a list of registered sex-offenders currently or previously on staff at affiliated churches. The decision is significant in light of a spate of Baptist clergy-sex-abuse cases and increased…

I have become persuaded that immigration reform is one of the most important moral and policy issues facing Christians and the nation today. And there is landmark legislation on the table — the bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill, supported by the…

GALVESTON, Texas (ABP) — Wearing the signature red bandana of the Bloods gang, Marcus jumped from his Mustang convertible, popped open the trunk and pulled out an AK-47. His friends shouted, “Shoot ‘em! Shoot ‘em!” The potentially deadly face-off had…

TYLER, Texas (ABP) — David Rogers, a Southern Baptist missionary in Spain who also is the son of legendary preacher Adrian Rogers, will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention June 12. If elected, he will…

CLUJ, Romania (ABP) — In a move signaling a renewed interest in partnering with the European Baptist Federation, Romanian Baptists have elected Otniel Bunaciu as their president. The May 18 decision of the 34th congress of the Baptist Union of…