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CHICAGO (ABP) — The head of British Baptists' mission agency will become the head of an American Baptist seminary, according to the Baptist World Alliance. Alistair Brown, general director of BMS World Mission since 1996, has been selected to be…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Jim Smith has been named the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's director of field team ministries for CBF global missions. The position was previously held by Jack Snell, who died in October after a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — While the political consequences of Sen. Barack Obama's March 18 speech on race have occupied much of the chatter on cable-news channels, the whole episode is noteworthy for another reason, according to experts in religion and politics….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — What is the IRS thinking? That's the question that many church-state experts asked themselves when news broke in late February about the Internal Revenue Service's investigation of Sen. Barack Obama's denomination. By all accounts, this is the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — An Alabama music minister prominent in moderate Baptist life has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor while he was employed in an earlier position in Maryland. Tim Mann, who has been minister of music…

DALLAS (ABP) — David Nabors has resigned as treasurer and chief financial officer of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The resignation will become effective April 15. “We needed a change as it relates to the coming of a new…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Board members of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities have elected Michael Arrington, provost of Carson-Newman College, as executive director. The position became effective March 1. Arrington, 62, succeeds Thomas Corts, who in September…

The question before all Christians at all times is whether we will follow Jesus by seeking wholeheartedly to do God's will. Too often in American Christian/evangelical/Baptist life we have allowed ourselves to displace our loyalty to Jesus Christ and replace…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Reports the Religious Right's demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to Tony Perkins and Harry Jackson. But Jim Wallis, Samuel Rodriguez, David Gushee and other leaders and authors argue that the Religious Right, while not dead, is…