At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

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…

Years ago during my sojourn at Southern Seminary, William Hendricks, my theology professor, told us of a young man who informed him, “God told me you shouldn't be teaching here anymore.” Professor Hendricks' response was direct and to the point:…

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (ABP) — Belmont University has subpoenaed giving records from 100 Tennessee Baptist Convention churches in an ongoing legal dispute with the convention over control of the school's assets. The subpoena asks for records on churches' giving to the…

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (ABP) — On a chilly morning in central Texas, a man in ostrich-skin cowboy boots stood shivering beside a horse trough. Then he stepped in the water-filled tank. Charles Higgs quickly dunked the cowboy. Higgs, the pastor of…

In the Jan. 12 story titled “Biblical Recorder editor to take university post” please replace the fifth graph with the following: The 172-year-old newspaper announced last February it would nominate four people to open seats on its 16-member board, bypassing…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — “Suspicious” fires damaged two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third in Greenville, N.C., the night of Jan. 13. Memorial Baptist Church and Unity Free Will Baptist, located near each other in the…

Please replace the first paragraph in the Jan 11 ABP story, “Analysis: Do Baptist leaders regret justifying Iraq war?” with the following: As the number of American soldiers killed passes 3,000 and Congress debates President Bush's latest strategy for winning…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Southern Baptist officials harshly rejected Jimmy Carter's effort to unite all Baptists in North America under a compassion agenda, calling the ambitious plan “voodoo ecumenism” and a thinly veiled Democratic strategy to woo values voters. But other…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — By another large — but not veto-proof — margin, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would loosen restrictions on government funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Meanwhile, the contentious debate over stem-cells took another turn…