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

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (ABP) – Belmont University has decided not to remain affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, which helped found the school in 1952. School officials informed convention leaders that Belmont intends to elect its own trustees — a move…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — With a handful of exceptions, candidates and causes backed by religious conservatives went down to defeat in unusually prominent off-year elections Nov. 8. Other than Texas voters' passage of a state constitutional amendment banning marriage and similar…

DOVER, Pa. (ABP) — The democratic process yielded one win and one loss Nov. 8 for advocates of a controversial theory about the origins of earthly life. A bitterly divided Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to write new science…

DALLAS (ABP) — Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment Nov. 8 defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. By a two-to-one margin, voters approved Proposition 2, which bolstered the state's ban on same-sex marriage by…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Mart Gray, who has served for eight years as the coordinator of the Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, has resigned to become the full-time pastor of a new church. Gray has served part-time as pastor of Covenant…

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — Trustees of Mercer University are poised to elect Bill Underwood, interim president of Baylor University, as president of the Baptist school in Macon, Ga. Underwood, 49, met with some faculty and board members during a visit…

MEGIDDO, Israel (ABP) — The ruins of an ancient Christian church, found within the walls of an Israeli prison, may prove to be one of the earliest churches ever discovered and could change the historical understanding of the Christian church…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — John Lilley has kept his distance from the ideological battle that has divided Baylor University's constituents into two camps. That distance — 2004 miles to be exact — and Lilley's reputation as a reconciler may be…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The State Department's annual report on the state of religious freedom around the globe stars the usual villains but also contains some new bright spots. “In some countries, we find their leaders have modified laws and policies…or…

In the story, “Baptist 'brewhaha': Leaders deny reports volunteers refused to pass out water,” issued Nov. 3, please replace the second paragraph with the following: A Fort Myers, Fla., television news crew first reported the alleged incident Oct. 28. NBC-2…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — After several fits and starts, Baylor University's search for new leadership has produced a president — John Lilley, current president of the University of Nevada, Reno, and a three-time graduate of Baylor. Lilley, 66, was elected…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In what has become something of a regular ritual, conservative groups are expressing outrage at a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — this one involving parents' rights and sex education. Socially conservative groups…