Why Gen Z is losing faith in America 

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — An ambitious plan to unite Baptists in North America around the compassionate message of the gospel is not secretly a plan to get Baptists to elect Hillary Clinton as president, one of the plan's leaders said…

DALLAS (ABP) — A recent sex scandal involving two North Texas pastors and the women who accused them of molestation is unusual because the victims — by now beyond the statute of limitations for sex-abuse cases — urged authorities and…

COLUMBIA, Ill. (ABP) – A volunteer camp leader arrested for child pornography and indecent solicitation of a child met both of his victims through a camp sponsored by the Illinois Baptist State Association, according to police. While no crime is…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — After an uproar from an odd coalition of conservative religious, libertarian and business groups, the Senate voted late Jan. 18 to scuttle part of its sweeping lobbying-reform bill. The Senate amended S. 1, known as the “Legislative…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new alliance between prominent evangelical leaders and their secular scientific counterparts to fight global warming is drawing bipartisan support in Washington — but also has some evangelical detractors. A coalition of 28 scientists, theologians, ethicists and…

MESQUITE, Texas (ABP) — A small group of Baptists met Jan. 16 in Mesquite, Texas, to discuss ways to fund some Baptist General Convention of Texas ministries but not necessarily support a state convention in which they feel they have…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Christian Ethics Today will sponsor an ethics conference June 27 in Washington, D.C. to address “The minister and politics: How to be prophetic without being partisan.” The free conference falls one day prior to the Cooperative Baptist…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — A fire that damaged much of its building may bring unexpected but positive results to a Greenville, N.C., congregation. Memorial Baptist Church was one of two churches damaged by fire on Jan. 13. A third church,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — With House Democrats winding down their “First 100 Hours” legislative agenda and the Senate taking up many of the measures, moderate and conservative Christian ethicists agree the proposals raise moral and ethical issues far beyond the fates…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Some religious conservative groups are joining with their occasional adversaries in the civil-libertarian community to protest part of Democrats' lobbying-reform bill. Groups as diverse as the National Right to Life Committee, Family Research Council, National Association of…

GREENWOOD, Mo. (ABP) — In what the detective investigating it called Missouri's biggest clergy sex-abuse to date, Shawn Davies, a 33-year-old former music and youth minister, was sentenced Jan. 12 to 20 years in prison for molesting children at First…

GREENWOOD, Mo. (ABP) — In what the detective investigating it described as Missouri's biggest clergy sex-abuse to date, Shawn Davies, a 33-year-old former music and youth minister, was sentenced Jan. 12 to 20 years in prison for molesting children at…