Faced with decreased offerings, state Baptist conventions rethink giving to SBC

Evangelicals are waking up to our responsibility to the environment. Evangelical initiatives on the environment are growing in cultural impact, but they continue to garner stout resistance within the most conservative sector of our own community. Too often, politics and…

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (ABP) — Differences on abortion rights, stem-cell research and even the veracity of evolution became evident among the Republican presidential candidates in their first major debate May 3. While Democrats — who held their first debate a…

MOSHI, Tanzania (ABP) — Two Southern Baptist missionaries are on their way back to Tanzania, where they were attacked with machetes and shot during a vicious robbery in the East African country. Carl and Kay Garvin, Southern Baptist missionaries who…

BRIGHTON, England (ABP) — Baptists in Great Britain are calling on their government and churches to do more for migrant workers and to oppose human trafficking around the world. The resolution came at the May 4-7 Baptist Assembly in Brighton,…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Renowned evangelical philosopher Francis Beckwith has become a Roman Catholic and, as a result, has resigned as president — and also as a member — of the Evangelical Theological Society. Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30 on her way to visit her grandparents in Tyler, Texas. Creed, a freshman student at Baylor University in Waco,…

SALEM, Ore. (ABP) — Legislators in Oregon and New Hampshire have set up their states to become the latest offering marriage-like legal protections for same-sex couples. The Oregon Senate voted overwhelmingly May 2 to approve a bill creating domestic partnerships…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has turned back a last-ditch effort by Republicans to allow religious groups receiving Head Start funds to discriminate in hiring on the basis of faith. On a mostly party-line vote of 222-195, the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Despite a veto threat from President Bush, a large majority of the House of Representatives voted May 3 to add gender, sexual orientation and disability to the categories protected under federal hate-crimes laws. On a 237-180 vote,…