No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — Next January's “Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant” will be the most important Baptist event since before the Civil War, an emotional Jimmy Allen told Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders Feb. 16. Allen, the last moderate to…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Unlike most pastors, Erwin McManus is more comfortable talking to people outside the church than he is to rooms full of Christians — like the ones at the North Carolina Baptist State Convention's evangelism conference Feb….

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Dissatisfaction brewing within the Southern Baptist Convention “could re-ignite a battle we don't want to fight again,” David Dockery warned fellow denominational leaders at a conference on Baptist identity. The need for greater unity among Southern…

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Like it or not, Baptist bloggers are here to stay, according to speakers at a conference on Baptist identity. And those who want to bring healing to the Southern Baptist Convention should listen to the critique…

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — Baptist state conventions and associations will soon cease to exist as they are currently structured, according to Mike Day, the director of missions for the Mid-South Baptist Association in Memphis. “A new paradigm is on the…

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) — The future should be bright for Southern Baptists, but it won't be if they continue their infighting, said Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page Feb. 15 at a conference on Baptist identity. Page, pastor of First…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Alabama Baptist historian Wayne Flynt will receive Baptists Today's annual Judson-Rice Award for leadership with integrity April 20. Flynt, professor emeritus at Auburn University, will receive the national news journal's award during a banquet at a…

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — One North Carolina Baptist pastor isn't content simply to reach out to his fellow Vietnamese living in the United States. “God has opened the doors in Vietnam, allowing the gospel to be shared, and there have…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Wade Burleson says there was no “investigation” by the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board into his allegations of trustee improprieties — despite the insistence of some trustees that there was. “What idiot told Mr. Burleson…

TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — Kansas' state Board of Education has yet again reversed itself on standards for science teaching, removing the questioning of evolution from recommended state curricula. By a 6-4 vote Feb. 14, the panel served another volley in…

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — One North Carolina Baptist pastor isn't content simply to reach out to his fellow Vietnamese living in the United States. “God has opened the doors in Vietnam, allowing the gospel to be shared, and there have…

PRINCETON, N.J. (ABP) — Bruce Metzger, who was perhaps the 20th century's preeminent New Testament Greek scholar, has died at age 93. The retired seminary professor reportedly died of natural causes in Princeton, N.J., Feb. 13. Metzger helped translate both…