Here’s why the new Texas school curriculum is so very, very bad

NEW YORK (ABP) — A Baptist minister and former Wake Forest Divinity School professor has resigned just nine months after becoming senior pastor of New York’s Riverside Church , a historic congregation identified with the 20th-century Social Gospel movement that…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A Kentucky Baptist university has, at the last minute, withdrawn its invitation to host a youth mission team from Texas after the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped their church for its toleration of homosexuals. Brent Beasley,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist church in Tennessee canceled Sunday and Wednesday services after cutting short a camp because children were getting sick with flu-like symptoms. Long Hollow Baptist Church, a 5,000-member church that meets in three campuses…

  Deborah Loftis takes over as executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in November. RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist woman has been tapped to head an organization of church leaders and artists dedicated…

DALLAS (ABP) — Buckner International temporarily is suspending travel by mission groups to Honduras in the wake of a coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office. Officials with the Dallas-based orphan care ministry announced June 29 they are halting…

DETROIT (ABP) — Despite President Obama's election, African Americans still have a long way to go before achieving racial equality, NAACP head Benjamin Jealous told a group of black Baptists meeting in Detroit. "We're not the National Association for the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The first woman president of a consortium of Baptist seminaries in Asia died June 25 in Singapore. Lilian Lim, 50, was born with Marfan's syndrome, a connective-tissue disorder that weakens major arteries. Eron Henry, a spokesman for…