Al Mohler cozies up to Doug Wilson

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Something of an international diplomatic crisis ensued Aug. 23, after news spread that conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson had called for the assassination of Venezuela's president. Representatives of groups as diverse as the State Department, the Department…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A federal agency has withdrawn funding from an abstinence program that is part of President Bush's “faith-based initiative,” saying it does not have proper safeguards in place to avoid direct government support of religion. In a letter…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A 14-member joint workgroup is being formed to review the working relationship between Georgetown College and the Kentucky Baptist Convention. The request for dialogue, proposed by Georgetown's board of trustees, was approved by the KBC Mission…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new discovery in embryonic stem-cell research may end up leap-frogging the political and moral debates over the procedure. A team of researchers from Harvard University announced Aug. 21 that they had converted adult human skin cells…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — Saddleback Community Church is the largest congregation in the Southern Baptist Convention. But is it really Southern Baptist? Pastor Rick Warren told a group of high-profile journalists in May that the 40,000-member church no longer…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — In Matara, Sri Lanka, school teachers have moved all the classes to the upper floor because the children refuse to meet in the school's ground-level rooms. The memory of the Dec. 26 tsunami is still…

TAIZE, France (ABP) — The legendary founder of a monastic community that united Christians from Anglican, Lutheran, Catholic and evangelical traditions was stabbed to death during a prayer service Aug. 16. Brother Roger, leader of the Taizé Community in the…

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (ABP) — Church leadership grows out of an unrelenting compulsion to follow God, speakers repeatedly told participants in the 10th annual Leadership Summit Aug. 11-13. Simulcast live from Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago, the conference…

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (ABP) — Attitude, relationships and love have set Southwest Airlines apart from the rest of the industry, President Colleen Barrett told thousands of religious leaders. And those qualities, which have made Southwest Airlines a success, are transferable…

Part one: (ABP) — As students load their backpacks for school this fall, a growing number include the Bible among their textbooks. But critics — including Christians eager to see teenagers seriously study the Scriptures — say some public-school Bible…