BWIM puts up a billboard in Orlando

DALLAS (ABP) — Joel Pulis, a Baylor University graduate now living in Dallas, was recently featured in People magazine for leading his church in a relatively new and singular mission: to reach poor people with mental disabilities. Pulis, 33, refers…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Texas pastor Dwight McKissic and his fellow trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have apparently decided to make peace, despite their previous public disagreements about a private “prayer language.” In a March 27 statement, trustee…

SALISBURY, N.C. (ABP) — Former missions leader Bob Reccord preached a revival last week in a North Carolina church where congregants were asked to give a sacrificial “love offering” because preaching is Reccord's “only source of income” — one year…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary president's recent controversial comments on homosexuality caused a gay-rights group to target his office with a sit-in March 26, leading to 12 arrests. Members of Soulforce, a religious gay-rights group, detoured their…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Officials at the Baptist World Alliance have, for the first time, honored a Baptist couple for their commitment to human rights. Joao and Nora Matwawana, residents of Nova Scotia, will receive BWA's 2007 Denton and…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Grad student Ryan McGhee has spent nearly all of his free time in the last several months doing one thing — building an electrical turbine. But despite the tool's seemingly pedestrian function, McGhee calls his work…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (ABP) — Amid an investigation into the actions of the state's office of faith-based initiatives, Ohio officials have terminated a contract with a large organization closely tied to President Bush's efforts to fund government services through religious charities….

SALT LAKE CITY (ABP) — For those who needed any more reasons to discount the decades-old rumor that one of America's largest and oldest consumer-products companies was in league with Satan, a federal jury recently provided about 19 million of…