No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

ATLANTA (ABP) — When many kids were spending their spring break on the beach, more than 300 served others in one of the nation's poorest areas through a joint Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-Texas Baptist program. This year, hundreds of students worked…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Controversial policies for missionaries on baptism and speaking in tongues were slightly softened — but not revoked — by trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board May 8. The trustees, meeting in Kansas…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A broad variety of evangelicals and other Christian groups and leaders launched a new campaign May 7 to get Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With a Washington press conference and ads in two major Capitol Hill…

In the May 4 story “Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident,” please change the first graph to say: “Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — A former administrative assistant at a South Carolina Baptist Convention church is back in Charleston to face allegations that she embezzled more than $30,000 from the church's bank accounts. Kristin Barnes Warren is accused of forging…

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A North Carolina religion professor's statement that Christianity and Islam talk about “the same God” is causing a furor among Baptists in Texas. At a February conference in Austin, Texas, Charles Kimball of Wake Forest University…

Evangelicals are waking up to our responsibility to the environment. Evangelical initiatives on the environment are growing in cultural impact, but they continue to garner stout resistance within the most conservative sector of our own community. Too often, politics and…

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (ABP) — Differences on abortion rights, stem-cell research and even the veracity of evolution became evident among the Republican presidential candidates in their first major debate May 3. While Democrats — who held their first debate a…

MOSHI, Tanzania (ABP) — Two Southern Baptist missionaries are on their way back to Tanzania, where they were attacked with machetes and shot during a vicious robbery in the East African country. Carl and Kay Garvin, Southern Baptist missionaries who…

BRIGHTON, England (ABP) — Baptists in Great Britain are calling on their government and churches to do more for migrant workers and to oppose human trafficking around the world. The resolution came at the May 4-7 Baptist Assembly in Brighton,…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Renowned evangelical philosopher Francis Beckwith has become a Roman Catholic and, as a result, has resigned as president — and also as a member — of the Evangelical Theological Society. Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30 on her way to visit her grandparents in Tyler, Texas. Creed, a freshman student at Baylor University in Waco,…