Senators clear the way for Hegseth’s Christian nationalist crusade

HOUSTON (ABP) — Robert Sloan, new president of the Houston Baptist University, says he doesn't expect the school to abandon its ties to the traditional Texas Baptist convention in favor of its competitor, the fundamentalist Southern Baptists of Texas Convention….

BEIRUT (ABP) — As international negotiations to end the war in Lebanon proceeded slowly Aug. 8, Lebanese Baptist leaders questioned whether two Baptist schools, now housing hundreds of refugees displaced by the conflict, will be able to begin the academic…

FORNEY, Texas (ABP) — A Texas mission team, trapped in war-torn Lebanon when Israel invaded July 13, says prayer, patience and the love of a Baptist congregation in Beirut helped them through the ordeal. The 10-member team originally set out…

GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP) — Members of First Baptist Church of Gulfport have learned a lot in the year since Hurricane Katrina destroyed their waterfront church buildings. Mostly they've learned that a church is much more than an edifice. “It's an…

HOUSTON (ABP) — Houston Baptist University trustees elected Robert Sloan, the controversial former president of Baylor University, as president of the 2,300-student school Aug. 8. Sloan will assume the presidency Sept. 1, becoming the school's third president since its founding…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Tom Stocks, the pastor for 17 years at Rosalind Hills Baptist Church in Roanoke, Va., never thought he would need a sabbatical. But in January — after recent staff changes, three church fund-raising campaigns in five years,…

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — After serving the homeless for decades in New Orleans, Tobey Pitman is finally paving significant inroads with leaders and homeowners in the predominantly Catholic region. That's not to say he hasn't had noteworthy success with his…

Robert Marus/ABP Joe McKeever, executive director of the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans, addresses pastors and other church leaders from the association during their monthly support meeting Aug. 2. McKeever has been holding such meetings as a way to…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The government agency charged with enforcing the United States' ban on travel to Cuba has notified the Alliance of Baptists that it will be fined $34,000 for allegedly engaging in tourist activities while in Cuba for religious…