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...
By David Gushee As I write this column, Jeanie and I are preparing to gather with a half-dozen young couples at church to begin a marriage class. For six weeks we will meet together to discuss ways that these nearly-…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Ten mission volunteers in Costa Rica to provide safe drinking water and vision clinics turned to disaster relief when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Jan. 9. This grandstand is staging area for a feeding operation being staffed…
Baptist and Muslim scholars recently gathered at Andover Newton Theological School near Boston for a historic dialogue. (PHOTO/S. Farooqui) NEWTON CENTER, Mass. (ABP) — Several dozen Baptists and Muslims gathered Jan. 9-11 to repair a relationship better known for harsh…
(Editor's note: This story updates, replaces and corrects one issued Jan. 8, which incorrectly attributed the domestic-violence comments to Warren rather than Holladay. ABP regrets the error.) LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — Comments on the Saddleback Church website that the Bible does not…
NEW YORK (ABP) — Robert Handy, who studied under legendary Christian scholars like Paul Tillich before becoming a prominent Baptist historian in his own right, died at a retirement community in West Caldwell, N.J., Jan. 8. He was 90. Handy…
(Editor's note: This story corrects and replaces an earlier story that erroneously attributed the comments on the audio to Rick Warren. ABP regrets the error.) LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — Rick Warren, the Southern Baptist mega-church pastor chosen to deliver the…
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Some Baptists stress evangelism, and others emphasize the social gospel. Some believe Christ died for all people; others say Christ died only for the elect whom God predestined to salvation. Historically, some defended slavery; others championed…
WACO, Texas (ABP) — All Landmark Baptists believe in church succession, at least to some degree, but not every Baptist holding that position is — or was — a Landmarker, according to Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical…
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptists’ signal contribution to American and world history and political thought, historians almost unanimously agree, is their uncompromising emphasis on religious freedom. But, they hasten to add, the doctrine of soul freedom that grounds Baptists’ belief in…
