At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

SPRINGWOOD, Va. (ABP) — It's different at the white frame Baptist church on the hill this week. There's no Harold Cook with his white cat, Chrissy, to do the things he's done for the past 25 years. With his retirement,…

ATLANTA (ABP) — The nation's two living Baptist ex-presidents are calling for a historic convocation in Atlanta next year, intended to improve the “negative” image of Baptists in North America and to unite the majority of Baptists into a loose-knit…

DALLAS (ABP) — A growing number of Baptists may have welcomed the New Year by raising a glass of something a bit stronger than iced tea. In recent years, Baptist attitudes toward alcohol consumption have seemed to change, according to…

While President Bush was taking his holiday to reflect on what to do now in Iraq, the Iraqis themselves took a step that may have entirely preempted his reflections. The botched execution of Saddam Hussein revealed the depths to which…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The first Muslim member of Congress, responding to critics who said his plan to swear an oath of office on the Quran is anti-American, decided to use about the most patriotic copy of the Muslim holy book…

PRINCETON, N.J. (ABP) — Americans must have politics on their minds. According to a recent Gallup poll, George W. Bush is the most admired man in the world. Sen. Hilary Clinton (D-NY) is the most admired woman. And Sen. Barack…

LUNEBURG, Germany (ABP) — A German Baptist theologian who led the International Baptist Theological Seminary through some of its most tumultuous years has died. Wiard Popkes, a retired professor at the Baptist Seminary of Hamburg and long-time trustee chairman of…

LUNEBURG, Germany (ABP) — A German Baptist theologian who led the International Baptist Theological Seminary through some of its most tumultuous years has died. Wiard Popkes, a retired professor at the Baptist Seminary of Hamburg and long-time trustee chairman of…

WASHINGTON — Frank Adams, general secretary of the All Africa Baptist Fellowship, died Dec. 27 in Kumasi, Ghana. His age was unavailable. Before heading up the African region of the Baptist World Alliance, Adams was the general secretary for the…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (ABP) — John Merritt, general secretary emeritus of the International Baptist Convention, died of cancer Dec. 29. He was 76. Merritt served as a missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board — then known as the…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (ABP) — In the latest of a long-but-unsuccessful line of predictions and prophecies, Pat Robertson said Jan. 2 the United States will face a massive terrorist attack in late 2007. The 76-year-old religious broadcaster uttered his prediction…

BOSTON (ABP) — A week after the state's highest court chided them for not acting sooner, Massachusetts legislators relented Jan. 2 and OK'd a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the only state that currently allows…