Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources are reportedly poised to name a new president. Sources tell Associated Baptist Press that, Thom Rainer, founding dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at Southern…

BIRMINGHAM, England (ABP) — Having served as general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain since 1991, David Coffey is facing a new challenge — the presidency of the Baptist World Alliance. Listening to Coffey, it's clear he has…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — John Roberts, President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, donated legal work on behalf of gay-rights groups that helped them win a landmark 1996 case before that panel, according to the Los Angeles Times. While he was…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Weatherford Memorial Baptist Church's facilities sit on a prominent corner on the south side of Richmond, Va. Patterned after Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, the main sanctuary has a circular vestibule with white columns, a marble floor and…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — In a single sentence, the Missouri Court of Appeals turned down a motion for a rehearing in the continuing legal struggle between the Missouri Baptist Convention and five related institutions. The order, issued on Aug….

BIRMINGHAM, England (ABP) — About 13,000 Baptist Christians from around the world celebrated a century of togetherness July 27-31 in Birmingham, England. With vibrant music, vivid pageantry and stirring stories of faith, the Baptist World Centenary Congress Baptists gathered believers…

BIRMINGHAM, England (ABP) — In what some participants characterized as “a foretaste of heaven,” about 12,000 Baptists from more than 200 nations joined their voices in worship at the closing session of the Baptist World Congress. From praise choruses led…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush endorsed the teaching of “intelligent design” on an equal level with natural selection in a roundtable interview with reporters from Texas newspapers Aug. 1. Bush said students should be exposed to the theory, which posits…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Observers of the bloody Sudanese civil war are concerned that the apparently accidental death of a central figure in the nation's new power-sharing government could derail a months-old peace agreement. Sudanese officials confirmed Aug. 1 that Vice…

Please make the following correction in the July 28 ABP story, “Joel Gregory, former SBC leader to teach at moderate seminary.” Remove the words “Baylor graduate” in the fifth graph to read: However, Gregory soon resigned from his pulpit, succumbing…

BIRMINGHAM, England — “Divisions in the river of faith that divide us into swirling eddies and tributaries” constitute the most serious plight currently facing the church, Jimmy Carter told delegates attending the Baptist World Alliance Centenary Congress. Carter, who led…

BIRMINGHAM, England (ABP) — Urging Christians to pursue “a new reformation” in the 21st century, Rick Warren told delegates to the Baptist World Centenary Congress, “The first Reformation was about belief. This one needs to be about behavior.” “We need…