Al Mohler cozies up to Doug Wilson

NORTHERN PAKISTAN (ABP) — Despite early positive hints of life beneath the ruins of schools in northern Pakistan, no survivors were found by the search-and-rescue team from Hungarian Baptist Aid, which arrived in the region two days after the Oct….

NORTHERN THAILAND (ABP) — As they pour scalding green tea into plastic cups and pass it to their guests sitting on mats on the concrete floor of the “head man's” home, the Palaung villagers explain the benefits of being in…

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP) — A trustee of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary resigned Oct. 11 shortly after questioning a plan to name a building for former seminary president Paige Patterson and his wife, Dorothy. Richard Headrick, a trustee from Laurel,…

In the Oct. 21 ABP story “Action on budget, gays, trustees, exec show conservatives' muscle in N.C.,” David Horton was mistakenly identified as a speaker at a rally at Southeastern Seminary. To correct the mistake, make the two corrections below….

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP) — Baptists in North Carolina next month will be asked to place new restrictions on churches that condone homosexuality, creating perhaps the most specific ban of gay-friendly churches in Southern Baptist life. The president of a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Hurricane Katrina's storm surge continues to muddy the line between church and state, as administration officials and some members of Congress are proposing aid to religious institutions in the disaster's wake. A group of senators — including…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The new Iraq Constitution, which apparently has gained approval, sets forth two competing visions of democracy and human rights, according to some religious-freedom experts. The current document “sets forth two competing and diametrically opposed visions of society…

TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — In a reverberation from a landmark Supreme Court case on gay rights, Kansas' highest court has overturned a law that differentiated between homosexual and heterosexual statutory rape. The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously overturned a state law…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new survey shows that, even as Americans have become more accepting of non-traditional family structures, their view of the ideal family has remained the same — a heterosexual couple, married for life, with children. The survey,…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — No congregation could be a Missouri Baptist Convention church without cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention, if a constitution amendment is passed next week. Requiring a church to cooperate with the national convention would be a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — After pleading from prominent Baptists and other religious leaders, a Senate panel has declined to recommend major cuts in a federal program that subsidizes grocery purchases for the needy. On an 11-9 vote Oct. 19, the Senate…