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WASHINGTON (ABP) — Worship infused with music and missions, cooperation and communion, and doses of laughter marked a historic reunion of Baptists June 29 in the nation's capital city. The American Baptist Churches USA and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship held…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship took the first step June 29 toward joining the United Nations' campaign against global poverty and disease, called the Millennium Development Goals. In a break from business as usual during the Fellowship's national…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — One of the most prominent historians of American evangelicalism called on “true Baptists” June 29 to re-assert their prophetic role “as watchmen on the wall of separation between church and state.” Randall Ballmer, a history professor at…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — More than 2,500 Baptists gathered June 28-29 for the annual Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Washington. For the first time, it featured a joint gathering with the American Baptist Churches USA. The service in Washington's convention center marked…

In the June 26th ABP story, “Southern Baptists in California create competing state convention,” please replace the first sentence of the 8th paragraph with the following: Wilson said 25 percent of the money contributed by his congregation to denominational missions…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Eighty-seven years after George Truett thundered a call for separation of church and state to more than 10,000 Southern Baptists gathered in the nation's capital, a smaller but more diverse group of Baptists paid tribute to the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — God's covenant with Christians “places the responsibility for being the presence of Christ squarely on our shoulders,” Emmanuel McCall told participants at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly June 28. God is a covenant-keeping God, insisted McCall,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The key to ministry in Jesus' name — even in difficult and dangerous places — is to “show up,” Lauran Bethell told participants in the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society annual meeting. Bethell, an American Baptist…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — AIDS asks one question: Are you human? That's what Genie Hargrove told participants in a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship panel discussion on HIV/AIDS. Churches must see the humanity behind the crisis, she said. Hargrove, pastor of Beulah Baptist…