Why are we still calling ourselves ‘moderate’ Baptists?

LOUISVILLE, Ky., (ABP) – Retired New Testament professor and author James Blevins died July 24 after a long illness. He was 67. A native of Hot Coal, W.Va., Blevins was professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — Tom Lolley, who served as a mountain missionary for North Carolina Baptists for 19 years, died July 22 in Asheville. He was 67. Lolley, brother of former Baptist seminary president Randall Lolley, is a former western…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — In spite of boasts by his opponents that they had the votes to fire President Robert Sloan, Baylor University regents took no vote on their embattled president, other than affirming the long-range plan that has become…

PLAINVIEW, Texas (ABP) — A charge that Wayland Baptist University educates and ordains homosexual ministers is false, damaging and almost slanderous, the school's president said. A listener to “Today's Issues,” a program broadcast on the American Family Radio Network, accused…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Barely a week after their Senate counterparts voted down a proposal to ban same-sex marriages, House members passed legislation using different methods to achieve a similar goal. On July 22, the House voted 233-194 to pass the…

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (ABP) — Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a religious-liberty watchdog organization, filed a complaint July 20 with the IRS against the 14,000-member First Baptist Church of Springdale, Ark., the largest church affiliated with the Arkansas…

TYLER, Texas (ABP) — All groups working with missionaries of the International Mission Board must work within the parameters of the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message, IMB trustees decided, and only members of Southern Baptist churches can lead overseas mission…

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — Two Baptist ministers — Republican Cecil Staton and Democrat Ben Taylor — will be campaigning for an open Georgia state Senate seat in the Nov. 2 general election. The newly created district covers parts of five…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — As Congress considered a resolution declaring the ethnic cleansing crisis taking place in western Sudan as genocide, a diverse coalition of religious leaders and congregants protested governmental inaction on the crisis. Around 300 people staged a “die-in”…

(ABP) — Gay marriage and abortion are overshadowing other moral issues in the presidential election, even among Christian voters, who make up the overwhelming majority of the electorate. “It has to do with the nature of our political structure,” said…

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — The American Baptists Churches USA may lose up to a fifth of its missionary force unless its mission agency can raise enough money to overcome its current financial crisis. The head of International Ministries, the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The same day a gay-marriage ban failed to move forward in the Senate, a different approach to opposing same-sex nuptials passed a House committee. The House Judiciary Committee voted July 14 to send the Marriage Protection Act…