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

Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board appointed 116 missionaries-the second-largest group of new missionaries in board history-during their May 19-21 meeting in Midland, Texas. They also adopted guidelines for cooperating with other Great Commission Christian partners overseas;…

A North Carolina Baptist pastor has reversed course, removing a sign outside his church suggesting the Muslim holy book should be put in a toilet. In the face of national media attention and overwhelmingly negative response to his actions-including critiques…

A group that tried last year to get Southern Baptists to encourage parents to pull their children out of public schools is now asking the Southern Baptist Convention to urge churches to investigate whether their local school systems support homosexuality….

“All is not well” among Southern Baptists, according to seminary president Danny Akin, who cited slumping evangelism statistics as evidence of “grave weakness” in the denomination. The Southern Baptist Convention has “experienced a conservative resurgence, a return to our biblical…

The American Family Association has announced the end of its boycott of the Walt Disney Co. after nine years. “We feel we have made our point,” said Tim Wildmon, president of the Tupelo, Miss.-based conservative Christian organization, in a statement….

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled May 23 that Shorter College trustees acted improperly when they shifted ownership of the college to a newly created foundation with a self-perpetuating board and essentially broke ties with the Georgia Baptist Convention. The 4-3…

A Southern Baptist task force has urged leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination to take “unprecedented” measures to evangelize the growing number of Hispanics in the country. Goals include baptizing more than 50,000 Hispanic converts by 2010 and starting…

The church that received national media attention in late May for a sign that said the Muslim holy book should be put in a toilet has withdrawn from the Southern Baptist Convention. The congregation of Danieltown Baptist Church in Forest…

Some Democrats are distancing themselves from a comment made by their party chair, Howard Dean, that the GOP is “pretty much a white, Christian party.” “It was divisive and wrong and I hope he apologizes for it,” Sen. Joe Lieberman,…

The United States partners in many ways with Canada and Great Britain, but on the issue of homosexuality, America could not be more different, new data from Gallup shows. According to Gallup, both Canadian and British citizens tend to be…

Results of a recent 10-country survey show Americans were the most likely to believe religion should have a role in politics. Thirty-seven percent of American respondents said religious leaders should “try to influence government decisions,” according to a survey for…

By Jason Anthony In 1957, when Billy Graham's New York City crusade launched him into the national spotlight, he took the chance to cross racial lines in an age of segregation. From June 24 to 26, Graham, now 86, will…