No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush's next-to-last State of the Union address provided little to cheer conservatives or liberals, highlighting the difficult position he is in as his presidency begins to approach its end. While speaking to both chambers of Congress…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — The dismissal of a female Hebrew professor by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has triggered accusations of gender discrimination and a suffocating interpretation of Scripture. The outcry involves Sheri Klouda, who taught Hebrew in the seminary's…

BERKELEY, Calif. (ABP) — In an event organizers billed as the first of its kind, about 40 transgender Christian leaders and their allies joined counterparts from other faiths for a “Transgender Religious Summit” Jan. 19-21 in California. Sponsors said the…

CORDOVA, Tenn. (ABP) — In the latest development in a scandal at one of the Southern Baptist Convention's largest churches, Bellevue Baptist Church fired Paul Williams Jan. 22. He had served as the minister of prayer and special projects at…

Wednesday in Washington I had the privilege of participating in a press conference announcing a new alliance between leading scientists and evangelicals to address threats to the well-being of God's creation. Our efforts immediately received support from a bipartisan array…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABP) — Todd Bassett, former head of the Salvation Army, has been named executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals. Bassett will replace Ted Haggard, who resigned from the position after a Colorado man alleged Haggard paid…

DALLAS (ABP) — Worldwide an estimated 1.6 million people die each year due directly to violence. Violence is responsible for 14 percent of all deaths among males age 15 to 44 and 7 percent of deaths of females of the…

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (ABP) — Helping a church become a peaceable fellowship is a never-ending battle, Kyle Childress acknowledged. But as Christians “wage peace” in church, they learn skills that help them build bridges in a divided world, he added. “It's…

DALLAS(ABP) — When church members who disagree stop looking for solutions and start focusing on personalities, it's time to call a mediator, according to experts at a Virginia ministry that helps churches resolve conflict. Conflict becomes destructive and potentially irreconcilable…

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…