No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

It's election season again. Actually, it never ceases to be election season in our politics-obsessed culture — and in politics-obsessed evangelical America. I have been thinking a lot about the intersection of evangelicals and politics. In a new book coming…

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — David Gushee, a Baptist theologian and author, has been named to the position of distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University. Gushee currently serves as a professor of philosophy at Union University in Jackson,…

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (ABP) — Doug Marlette, whose editorial cartoons often lampooned fundamentalist religion but whose folksy comic strip celebrated a rural Southern Baptist pastor, was killed in an automobile accident July 10. He was 57. The Pulitzer Prize winner,…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Recent criticism of a “cookie-making” degree at a Southern Baptist seminary has brought some homemakers out swinging, calling the critics “pitiful” and “sanctimonious liberals.” The tiff emerged after a June 18 guest opinion piece by…

ACCRA, Ghana (ABP) — Gathered in the courtyard of Ghana's Cape Coast Slave Castle, members of Baptist World Alliance held a somber service of memory and reconciliation July 5. The slave castle, perched on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean,…

DALLAS (ABP) — As churches and individual Christians demand more hands-on, practical connection to missions, some Baptists are questioning whether a missions-by-proxy approach — churches supporting professional career missionaries sent by large denominational agencies — has a future. Count Ken…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — While Baptist missiologists are declaring church-based missions the future of global outreach, some pastors are saying it is already here. Although evidence is largely anecdotal, many Baptists believe church work overseas without the help of mission…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Career missionaries have started to cut out the middleman when it comes to generating money, they say. And while denominational agencies and mission partners will not be left completely out of the picture, their roles…

ACCRA, Ghana (ABP) — The twin themes of freedom in Christ and reconciliation that leads to unity echoed throughout the July 2-7 annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. With more than 110 million members, the Alliance is the world's…

DALLAS (ABP) — Caucasian students continue to primarily populate college evangelical organizations, but ethnic minority students have started to join them in increasing numbers. Two of the nation's largest parachurch campus evangelical organizations, Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An independent federal panel charged with monitoring global conditions for religious liberty has once again elevated an evangelical scholar and leader as its chairman. The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom also elected a Southern Baptist…