No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

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…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) – In a split 44-7 vote, the Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board fired its top administrator, David Clippard, April 10. Clippard, who assumed duties as executive director Sept. 9, 2002, was terminated in a four-hour, closed-door…

DALLAS (ABP) — Charles Wade, who led the Baptist General Convention of Texas through major changes in its governance and a reorganization of its staff, has announced plans to retire as executive director Jan. 31, 2008. Wade told BGCT employees…

(Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series.) WASHINGTON (ABP) — With many Republicans concerned their party's leading presidential candidates are not sufficiently conservative on social issues, Democrats have what may be their most faith-friendly crop of…