No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

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…

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…