Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

Pictured left to right are: Dr. Marty McMahone, Ray Wilson, Danny Jeanes, Lauren Graber, Elaine Lipscomb, Harry Sweet, Stan McCarthy (moderator and representative of Acme Brick – one of this year's major sponsors), and Dr. Marcia Hawkins (President of the…

UNEDITED NEWS RELEASE — DALLAS — The Mainstream Baptist Network will explore the theme, “Voices of Hope: Why I Am Still A Baptist” at their annual Convocation in Dallas, Texas on February 23-24, 2007. The featured speakers will be Bill…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life, Bill Gates said. In Africa, where the AIDS pandemic is the worst, many women get infected with HIV by philandering husbands who…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — The choice between preventing AIDS by teaching abstinence or by distributing condoms is a false choice, Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly evangelical audience on World AIDS Day. Instead, both methods for dealing with HIV/AIDS…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — For Christians to love homosexuals like Jesus would, they should stop thinking of homosexuality as an orientation and start thinking of it as a temptation, says Tim Wilkins, himself “formerly gay.” Wilkins, who founded a…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — For 20 years, Rick Warren was wrong about AIDS, he told listeners at the opening session of the much-anticipated 2006 Global Summit on AIDS and the Church. The megachurch pastor and mega-author said he initially…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just weeks after Joel Hunter’s appointment as executive director of the Christian Coalition of America signaled a broader and softer image for the organization, a dispute over that new direction has forced him to step down. According…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A star evangelical pastor and a star Democratic senator have fired back at anti-abortion leaders who criticized an AIDS conference designed to rally Christians to fight the global pandemic. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange…

ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has received a second major grant from the Lilly Endowment to continue and expand a program designed to help nurture and sustain ministers in local congregations. The Atlanta-based moderate Baptist group announced Nov….

HORNSBY, Tenn. (ABP) — In May 2005, Tim West was a robust, 203-pound pastor ministering to his congregation at Hornsby Baptist Church. Twelve months later he lay in bed, his weight down to 93 pounds, praying that God would call…

Have you heard the latest? Pamela Anderson is divorcing Kid Rock after just four months of marriage. Did you know that Kevin Federline (aka K-Fed), Britney's estranged husband, is now nicknamed K-Fed-Ex? Isn't that hilarious? Did you see the tongue-in-cheek…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Evangelicals want secular journalists to be more accurate in their portrayals of conservative Protestants, and journalists in turn want respect from evangelical leaders and an understanding that the news business is not the promotion business. That was…