Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

ATLANTA (ABP) — Robert Nash has received the nomination for the global missions coordinator position at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. CBF council members will vote to approve the nomination at their annual meeting June 21 in Atlanta. The nomination comes…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Humility and civility offer common ground where faith and reason can exist in harmony — whether in a nation or on a Christian university campus, speakers stressed at the inauguration of John Lilley as Baylor University's…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Playboy photographers held an open casting call April 18 at Baylor University, despite the university's discipline and suspension in recent years of students who posed in the magazine. The magazine's photographers traveled to Baylor to solicit…

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — In a move that one official termed a “God-sized” task, Southern Baptists have pledged a Herculean effort to rebuild homes and churches destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Jim Burton, director of volunteer mobilization for the Southern Baptist…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The culture wars over homosexuality are coming to your local high school soon, featuring a two-day battle. As an estimated 500,000 high school and college students nationwide plan to participate in the national “Day of Silence” April…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Amid disaster-response efforts to rebuild homes and lives after Hurricane Katrina, a new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church has been born in western St. Tammany Parish, La. Bridgewater Church, launched Feb. 12 with a worship service at Madisonville…

DALLAS (ABP) — Almost three-fourths of Americans claim to be Christians, but only a small fraction consider church the place to deepen their faith, a new survey says. Less than 20 percent of American adults believe participation in a congregation…