Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, speaker, social activist and adviser to President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 19 at age 89. He was surrounded by family at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, the Philadelphia retirement community where he...
AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A few years ago, Justin Dillon read an article in the New York Times Magazine that detailed the story of young Indian girls who were searching for a better life in the United States but ended…
Susan Pacheco of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston describes the impact environmental degradation has on the most vulnerable people in the general population—particularly children and the elderly. (PHOTO/BGCT/Ferrell Foster)AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Environmental degradation presents the greatest…
By David Gushee Contemporary ethicists have retrieved an ancient insight by emphasizing the central role of habit in morality. After centuries of moral theories that focused on identifying rational moral principles that ought to govern human decision making, today’s ethicists…
David Blankenhorn, founding president of the Institute for American Values in New York, contrasts the “culture of debt” and the “culture of thrift” during his presentation at the BGCT Christian Life Conference in Austin. (PHOTO/Ferrell Foster/BGCT)AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Public…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — On his 16th day in office, President Barack Obama signed a bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $32 billion, providing coverage to an additional 4 million children in families with incomes too high…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — On his 16th day in office, President Barack Obama signed a bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $32 billion, providing coverage to an additional 4 million children in families with incomes too high to…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Former Samford University President Thomas Corts died unexpectedly Feb. 4 of an apparent heart attack. Corts, 67, died after being taken by ambulance to Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., accompanied by his wife of 44 years,…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Former Samford University President Tom Corts died unexpectedly Feb. 4 of an apparent heart attack. Corts, 67, died after being taken by ambulance to Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., accompanied by his wife of 44 years,…
By Doug Weaver Religious freedom has long been considered the “trophy” of Baptists — even if some Baptists of yesteryear weren’t as radical as heroes like Roger Williams, John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Leland — and accounts of Baptists…
