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WASHINGTON (ABP) — Delivering his fifth State of the Union address Jan. 31, President Bush presented an agenda much less expansive and ambitious than in previous years — and one with scant mention of many of the issues important to…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Two more federal appeals courts have upheld challenges to a nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure, increasing the chance that the Supreme Court will end up hearing the case. On Jan. 31, both the New York-based…

As authors (Broadway, Freeman, Harvey, Newman, Thompson) and advocates (Harmon, Medley) of the 1997 statement “Re-envisioning Baptist Identity: A Manifesto for Baptist Communities in North America,” we are delighted to see the “Manifesto” re-enter the consciousness of the Baptist public…

Jan. 20, 2006 I want to thank each of you for caring enough about Mercer to be here – for caring enough about Baptist life to be here – for caring enough about the principles upon which Mercer was founded…

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger faced the ultimate responsibility of a governor recently. He had the power to stop the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the former Crips gang leader and convicted murderer. Despite numerous pleas for mercy across the state,…

CARY, N.C. (ABP) — The Biblical Recorder, newspaper of North Carolina Baptists, will choose some of its own directors in a move to preserve its journalistic freedom, say the newspapers leaders. Beginning this fall, the 172-year-old newspaper will nominate four…

BUIES CREEK, N.C. (ABP) — The “Baptist Manifesto,” a theological statement that emphasizes the role of community to counterbalance individual freedom, has been misinterpreted by critics as opposing freedom of conscience, say seven Baptist theologians. “We believe with early Baptists…