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Masters winner buoyed by faith, marriage

The day before Johnson won the tournament April 8, J.B. Collingsworth, president of the Marriage and Family Matters ministry, sent the golfer a text message of Psalm 16:8: “I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at…

Baptist Briefs

ABP opens New York bureau. Associated Baptist Press has launched a news bureau in New York City. ABP Assistant Editor Hannah Elliott opened the independent news service's New York bureau March 15, a little more than a year after she…

Baptist college professor accused of embezzling

COLUMBIA, S.C. – An economics professor at a South Carolina Baptist university was charged with fraud April 5, after federal authorities discovered $134 million missing from investment funds he managed. The academic has since claimed amnesia and reportedly checked into…

New about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for April 19, 2007

Staff changes • Bernard Camden, to Fellowship Church, Chester, as pastor. • Jeff Hudgins, to Heritage Church, Farmville, as pastor. • Tim Mathia, resigning as pastor of Mentow Church, Huddleston. • Bill Welch, to Woodville Church, Woodville, as interim pastor….

Virginia Tech students gather at Baptist ministry center

Blacksburg, Va., is a wounded city. With 26,000 students, Virginia Tech is the dominant presence in the town usually bustling with students crisscrossing the campus and spilling over into the streets of the burg. Not Monday. Although barraged with requests…

RIGHT OR WRONG: What should I tell my preschooler about Santa Claus?

You actually have asked two separate “right or wrong” questions. One concerns whether it is right or wrong to tell a “little white lie” to a child if it brings happiness. Parents avoid telling their children the absolute truth all…

Are some people born to be religious?

NEW ORLEANS (RNS)—A recent debate at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was titled “The Future of Atheism,” but the heart of the dialogue explored a related question: Can mankind's age-old belief in God be explained purely as a stubbornly recurring…

BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court upholds ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court did April 18 exactly what many pro-lifers hoped and what many abortion-rights advocates feared it would: It upheld, for the first time, a nationwide ban on a specific abortion procedure. In a…

In sweeping decision, divided court upholds ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court did April 18 exactly what many pro-lifers hoped — and what many abortion-rights advocates feared. For the first time, the majority upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion procedure. In a…

Trump’s new ICE policy attacks the church

White House plan to combat Islamophobia draws mixed reviews

Rep. Barry Loudermilk pushes democracy to the brink

Mary the thorny rose