In three-hour interview, Mohler says he ‘hopes and prays’ Jimmy Carter is born again

HOUSTON (ABP) — In a highly publicized May 11 speech at a Texas Baptist college, the current front-runner among potential Republican presidential nominees attempted to explain his views on abortion rights and other controversial social issues. But the moderately pro-choice,…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — A Missouri judge has set a date for the first jury trial in the cases of five statewide Baptist institutions embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with the Missouri Baptist Convention. Jury selection in the…

GREENSBURG, Kan. (ABP) — As Baptists in Greensburg, Kan., reeled from the loss of their church building — and virtually their entire town — a nearby Baptist college sent some of its top students to help with the recovery effort….

WARSAW (ABP) — When Ellen Sauerbrey, the United States' assistant secretary of state for population, addressed a European conference on families May 11, she felt the need to defend her appearance there. In her May 11 opening speech at the…

ATLANTA (ABP) — When many kids were spending their spring break on the beach, more than 300 served others in one of the nation's poorest areas through a joint Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-Texas Baptist program. This year, hundreds of students worked…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Controversial policies for missionaries on baptism and speaking in tongues were slightly softened — but not revoked — by trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board May 8. The trustees, meeting in Kansas…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A broad variety of evangelicals and other Christian groups and leaders launched a new campaign May 7 to get Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With a Washington press conference and ads in two major Capitol Hill…

In the May 4 story “Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident,” please change the first graph to say: “Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — A former administrative assistant at a South Carolina Baptist Convention church is back in Charleston to face allegations that she embezzled more than $30,000 from the church's bank accounts. Kristin Barnes Warren is accused of forging…