Senators clear the way for Hegseth’s Christian nationalist crusade

STAFFORD, Texas (ABP) — When Peter Leong was a boy in Malaysia, he never imagined he would end up in Texas. Now, as pastor of a Houston-area church, he is leading a team of Baptists back to Asia to help…

In the Oct. 5 story “NC bylaw changes revise nomination process, exclude gay-friendly churches,” please replace “each post is a three-year term” in the fourth graph with the following: “If the committee rejects a second suggestion, the entity would carry…

NASHVILLE (ABP) — Tennessee Baptist Convention leaders caught officials of an affiliated college by surprise Sept. 29 by filing a lawsuit against the institution. The TBC Executive Board filed the suit in Davidson County Chancery Court against Belmont University. A…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Sixteen women leaders from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship just returned from a two-week trip to China, where they visited women leaders of the church in China and CBF representatives in Lanzhou, Chengdu, Nanning and Macau. The trip…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — On the heels of a Purdue University study that listed Baptists as the most obese religious group in America, Baptist-affiliated Baylor University has been recognized as one of America's fittest schools. The study, published in the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Roughly eight months after arsonists destroyed several rural Baptist church buildings in Alabama, pastors and members from the victimized congregations joined to celebrate the churches' restoration Oct.1 with government officials and leaders from the college where…

HALEYVILLE, Ala. (ABP) — Brent McDougal has been named coordinator of the Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. He will assume the role Oct. 15. McDougal replaces Mart Gray, who resigned last November to work full time as pastor of an Alabama…

CASWELL, N.C. (ABP) — Directors of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina made changes to the convention's bylaws Sept. 27 that would give North Carolina Baptist institutions a greater say in choosing their trustees and directors. The board also…

In the Oct. 3 story “Forty-three Baptist schools listed in U.S. News 'Best Colleges' rankings,” please replace graph five with the following: The “Great Schools at a Great Price” category included Mercer University, Mississippi College, Carson-Newman College, Samford University, Wayland…