At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist agencies like the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorse hundreds of chaplains, most of which serve with the armed services or in healthcare facilities, but Alan Tyson is part of a select few: he works in corporate America….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Alliance of Baptists honored its history and took steps to reshape its future during its 20th annual convocation, held April 13-15 in the nation's capital. Meeting at Washington's Calvary Baptist Church, more than 500 Alliance members…

NEW YORK (ABP) — ABC's “20/20” examined the problems with clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention April 13, warning that some convicted “preacher predators” remain on an SBC's list of ministers available for employment. Featuring interviews with Southern…

BLACKSBURG, Va. (ABP) — Virginia Baptists were well positioned to respond to the unprecedented massacre at Virginia Tech April 16. Ministers from Blacksburg Baptist Church and officials from the Baptist General Association of Virginia's campus ministry at Virginia Tech and…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Missouri Baptists may never know the specific reasons why their executive director was fired April 10, other than a few vague details released by a special committee April 16. Members of an ad hoc investigative…

There is an error in the 46th paragraph of the April 10 ABP story, “GOP presidential race again features faith, but new dynamics.” Please change it to read: “He married his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, months after his first marriage…

There is an error in the 46th paragraph of the April 10 ABP story, “GOP presidential race again features faith, but new dynamics.” Please change it to read:”He married his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, months after his first marriage ended…

DALLAS (ABP) — The single most important ingredient to the vitality of the 21st-century church is a new breed of leaders, according to a director at the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Those young leaders, Reggie Thomas says, must pioneer…

NEW YORK (ABP) — With awareness of sexual abuse by clergy in Southern Baptist churches on the increase, a well-known television newsmagazine is taking notice. In show — scheduled to air the evening of April 13 — called “Preacher Predators,”…

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — With increasing national attention on Baptist churches' problems with clergy sex abuse, two prominent pastors have said they intend to push for more comprehensive ways to address the problem in the 16-million member Southern Baptist Convention….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — About the only thing that hasn't been cloned in Washington's debate on embryonic stem cells is the embryos themselves. The Senate, in a repeat performance April 11, passed the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007” (S….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Perhaps the only thing more mind-boggling than the quantity of presidential hopefuls in 2008 is the array of faith-based views represented among the candidates themselves. Associated Baptist Press, as part of a series previewing issues important to…