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

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Conservatives in the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina elected their candidate as president, toughened the convention's stance against gay-friendly churches, replaced the interim executive director and approved new institutional trustees without dissent. But they failed…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has reportedly downplayed comments he made 20 years ago strongly opposing abortion and Supreme Court precedents on church-state issues. The comments, publicized Nov. 15, came in a letter he wrote in 1985…

Please make the following correction in the story “North Carolina Baptists vote again to exclude gay-friendly churches” released Nov 15. Replace the 9th graph with this: The North Carolina convention already has a financial policy that prohibits churches that condone…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — The man whose election as president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1979 began a 25-year-long upheaval that split the denomination has died at the age of 74. Adrian Rogers, pastor emeritus of Bellevue Baptist Church…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Conservatives in North Carolina elected their candidate as president, replaced the interim executive director of the Baptist State Convention, approved new institutional trustees without dissent, and toughened their stance against gay-friendly churches. But they failed in…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Any church that “knowingly affirms, approves, or endorses homosexual behavior” will no longer be allowed as a member of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. “It is most important that we as a convention uphold…

COLUMBUS, Ga. (ABP) — Georgia Baptists voted Nov. 15 to begin the process of severing their last ties with Mercer University, one of the nation's oldest and largest Baptist institutions of higher learning. The move comes in the immediate wake…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court has declined an attempt to have the words “In God We Trust” removed from the front of a North Carolina county government building. The justices declined, without comment, Nov. 14 to hear a case…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (ABP) — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson set off another wave of blogger reaction Nov. 10 after warning residents of Dover, Pa., that disaster may strike them because they “voted God out of their city.” Robertson made his…

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (ABP) — Virginia Baptists approved a reduced budget for 2006 during a peaceful annual meeting Nov. 10-11 which focused on worship and a new mission partnership. About 850 messengers registered for the Baptist General Association of Virginia's 182nd…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — Messengers to the Arkansas Baptist State Convention Nov. 7-9 passed seven resolutions, including ones opposing casino and lottery gambling, the sale of beer on college campuses, and homosexual activism. The 939 messengers also called for…

LACOMBE, La. (ABP) — The Rotary Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to aid in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana's hurricane relief efforts in Lacombe, a small Creole community about 25 miles north of New Orleans. Earmarked to restore…