Why coercive religious politics undermine Christianity and democracy

ATLANTA (ABP) — Former Texas pastor Charles Johnson will serve a one-year appointment as visiting instructor of preaching at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology. Johnson served for the past five years as senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church of…

ATLANTA (ABP) — As Lebanese citizens are relocated during the continued violence in the Middle East, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has donated $15,000 for relief efforts in the war-torn nation. The Fellowship also recently gave $5,000 in relief funds for…

Hannah Elliott/ABP GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP) — It would take an act of God for most people to quit their jobs, move away from friends and family and commit to living for two years in a camper in Katrina-ravaged Gulfport, Miss….

GREEN LAKE, Wis. (ABP) — A Lebanese Baptist minister critical of American evangelical Protestants' overwhelming support for Israel will address an American Baptist Churches missions conference Aug. 4. Martin Accad's address to participants at the ABCUSA International Ministries world missions…

DALLAS (ABP) — A recent movie by Al Gore has helped reveal a diversity of opinion among Christians when it comes to the environment. While in recent years some evangelical and conservative groups have begun to acknowledge the case for…

ARLINGTON, Va. (ABP) — Randel Everett will resign at the end of the year as president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, where he has served for the past nine years. “These past nine years have been an…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (ABP) — In the latest of several setbacks for gay-rights activists, Washington's Supreme Court narrowly voted to uphold that state's ban on same-sex marriage July 26. In a 5-4 decision, the state's highest court ruled against two groups…