One month before the election, I was forwarded an email originally sent from an organization called “Backing America.” The email was presented by Backing America as “a message from our sponsor.” The sponsor, Hillsdale College, wrote asking for tax-deductible contributions....
WASHINGTON (ABP) — As Congress debates clean-energy legislation, a conservative Christian group is ramping up lobbying efforts to raise questions about the science of climate change. The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Committee recently hired Shannon Royce, a…
By Harry Lucenay March 17, 2003, Nancy and I arrived in Hong Kong. As we were taking our bags into the place where we would be lodging for the next few weeks, a cell phone rang. The caller told our…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom added Nigeria to its list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom in an annual report released May 1. Citing sectarian violence, attempts to expand Sharia law and complaints…
DALLAS (ABP) — The late Herbert H. Reynolds, longtime president of Baylor University, was praised recently by one of Congress' most ardent defenders of church-state separation as a mentor who "ignited my passion for religious liberty and separation of church…
DALLAS (ABP) — The late Herbert H. Reynolds, longtime president of Baylor University, was praised recently by one of Congress' most ardent defenders of church-state separation as a mentor who "ignited my passion for religious liberty and separation of church…
LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Just how many Christians are flocking to Facebook? It’s not an idle question, to judge from the number of people asking it on the wildly popular social networking site. “We Can Find 10,000,000 Christians on Facebook”…
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (ABP) — While social networking sites are far from private or anonymous, the public nature hasn’t prevented individuals from boldly posting information or photographs they likely wouldn’t share with such a diverse crowd in “real” life, pastors…
By Norman Jameson Remember when you had to duck under your school desk for a nuclear attack drill? It made me wonder what all the fuss a nuclear bomb was about if hiding under my desk would protect me from…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist pastor arrested in 2007 on charges that he sexually abused two teenage boys has avoided prison — for now. Steven Haney Steven C. Haney, 48, pastor of Walnut Grove Baptist Church in…
