Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

ATLANTA (ABP) — Devita Parnell had quite a time trying to plan a Baptist-Jewish dinner so it wouldn't land on any holy day of either faith. Between Hanukkah, Christmas, Lent, Purim, Passover and Easter, she had her hands full. But…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Feb. 8 news conference in Washington signaled the start of what could become a showdown over global warming between two groups of evangelical Christian leaders. At stake are the hearts and minds of evangelical Americans and…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (ABP) — When Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson launched a revolution within the Southern Baptist Convention, they found an eager soldier in Ron Phillips. Phillips, 58, has been pastor of Central Baptist Church of Hixson, near Chattanooga, Tenn.,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Pentagon officials have revised a set of guidelines on religious freedom in the Air Force after complaints from members of Congress and some religious groups. But the revisions met with mixed reviews from groups with interests in…

BATON ROUGE, La. (ABP) — After months of sharing two houses with dozens of family members, the Nero family — formerly of New Orleans — is thanking a broad new Baptist partnership for helping them get their own apartment. Since…

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — By now the 10-year-old True Believers Baptist Church should have been in its comfortable, new facility with room to grow. But the sanctuary, classrooms and fellowship hall the young congregation was building are dark, empty and…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Less than a week after bidding farewell to retiring pastor Jerry Vines, First Baptist Church of Jacksonville — one of the country's largest congregations — is expected to nominate Dallas pastor Mac Brunson as his successor….

DALLAS (ABP) — Fire damaged four more rural Baptist churches in Alabama the morning of Feb. 7, bringing the total number of Alabama churches recently burned to nine. All of the churches affected were Baptist. The second batch of fires…

DALLAS (ABP) — As violent protests to caricatures of Muhammad intensify in the Muslim world, an Iranian newspaper has found a new way to express outrage: holding a contest for cartoons to make light of the Holocaust and its victims….

WACO, Texas (ABP) — A new survey of Baptist newlyweds suggests that, though true love does not always wait, it waits more often if it starts with a formal pledge of purity. While a majority of church-going young couples in…

Jim Newton/CBF Miss. BJC Director Brent Walker speaks at Northside Baptist Church, Clinton, Miss. CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) — A Baptist religious-freedom expert is warning that the spike in American public religiosity that has resulted from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks…

BEIRUT, Lebanon (ABP) — Incensed Muslims sacked Christian neighborhoods and burned the Danish Embassy in Lebanon Feb. 5, angered by the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Although some Muslim leaders appealed for peace, more than 20,000 protesters threw…