Why coercive religious politics undermine Christianity and democracy

WACO, Texas (ABP) — A support group for families and friends of homosexuals recently opened a community center in Waco named for a retired Baylor University religion professor and his wife, who have a homosexual son. The center is one…

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — Half of Georgetown College's six vice presidents are resigning to pursue other opportunities. Rather than an administrative crisis, however, Georgetown President Bill Crouch described the moves as positive examples of the strength and stability of the…

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Campbellsville University's School of Theology has named interim dean John Hurtgen to the permanent dean's position. Hurtgen, who has served the university since 1990 as an instructor of Christian studies and more recently as director of…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Wake Forest University President Thomas Hearn Jr. announced April 19 that he will retire next year. Hearn, 66, who took several months off to recuperate from surgery and treatment for a brain tumor, said he is…

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of a Louisiana Baptist school re-affirmed a controversial textbook policy April 19 and named one of their own as an interim president. In a special called meeting, Louisiana College trustees passed a resolution that they…

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary trustees will leave up to Southern Baptist Convention messengers a final decision on how best to tie the institution to the denominational body — but in the process may have only…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Both sides of the gay-marriage debate found something to cheer in an Oregon judge's April 20 decision to put a halt to the same-sex marriages that one county in the state had been performing. Multnomah County Circuit…

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of a Louisiana Baptist school re-affirmed a controversial textbook policy April 19 and named one of their own as an interim president. In a special called meeting, Louisiana College trustees passed a resolution that they…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A longtime Missouri Baptist leader and state Supreme Court justice has been nominated to the federal bench. In February, President Bush nominated Duane Benton to a vacant seat on the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A First Amendment scholar and a Mississippi church will be honored for their commitment to religious liberty when they receive awards from Associated Baptist Press April 30. Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the Freedom Forum's Arlington, Va.-based…

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill .(ABP) – In an inner-city ministry in the shadow of St. Louis, seventh-grader Brandon Smith writes a homemade card for Mother's Day. Writing on a folded sheet of paper, he thanks his mom for teaching him…

ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press writers received several awards — including a prestigious best-in-category honor — as part of a professional organization's annual awards competition. The Baptist Communicators Association honored winners in their annual Wilmer C. Fields Awards…