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

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — The American Baptist Churches USA is shutting down its communications department — the latest step in budget cuts and restructuring brought on by declining funds and theological division in the denominational group. Although the ABC…

(ABP) — Rescue specialists from Hungarian Baptist Aid have joined the recovery effort in Pakistan, where the country's worst earthquake ever killed an estimated 41,000 people Oct. 8. Other Baptist organizations — including the Baptist World Alliance, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A five-lesson Bible study course, published by two Baptist groups, is intended to help churches focus on poverty and racial issues that surfaced in the rubble of Hurricane Katrina. “Lessons on Poverty and Racism,” scheduled for release…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Alex Lowman, 15, didn't know if she would have anything in common with youth from Kenya. But a weeklong Passport youth camp just outside of Nairobi, Kenya, showed her the world is a smaller place than…

ROME, Ga. (ABP) — Nelson Price, a leading conservative among Baptists in Georgia and the Southern Baptist Convention, was named acting trustee chair at Shorter College following a long legal battle that ended with the Georgia Baptist Convention retaining complete…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Don't look for her songs on the standard country, rock, or even Christian charts. Instead, Kate Campbell's fans would say, listen to the singer-songwriter's music for the unique voice it gives not only to the experiences…

JACKSON, Miss. (ABP) — Remember those floating casinos washed ashore by Hurricane Katrina? The Mississippi legislature wants to let them stay there — or, more accurately, let them rebuild on land. Despite strong opposition from Mississippi Baptists and other religious…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U.S. Senate defied President Bush Oct. 5, voting overwhelmingly to amend a Pentagon spending bill to ban “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” of anyone in U.S. military custody. The amendment passed on a 90-9…

DALLAS (ABP) — For the second consecutive year, the Baptist General Convention of Texas has turned down a request from a Southern Baptist seminary to exhibit at the convention's annual meeting in November. In a letter to Gary Redding, alumni…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship may add a preamble to the organization's constitution, restoring explicit references to Jesus Christ and the Great Commission deleted in July. The proposed preamble, approved by the CBF Coordinating Council's legal…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush's conservative base seemed to divide into several camps within hours of his Oct. 3 selection of Harriet Miers to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Initial evaluations of Miers' little-known ideology…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Epitomizing what is at stake in the battle over a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a skeptical Supreme Court heard arguments Oct. 5 in a case involving Oregon's assisted-suicide law. The justices are considering whether…