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Baylor’s trustee reduction: politics or efficiency?

Baylor University regents approved a charter change to downsize the school's governing board from 36 to 16 members over nine years. Chairman Will Davis of Austin characterized the vote on the reduction in board size as “not unanimous but overwhelming.”…

Missouri Baptists exclude CBF churches

The Missouri Baptist Convention is no longer open to churches that support any other organization considered to compete with the state convention or the Southern Baptist Convention. The changes will shut out congregations that participate in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…

Letters for November 3, 2005

The best of America Thank you for the excellent front page article “A Marine is remembered” [Herald, Oct. 20]. Sgt. Jayton Patterson represents the best of America. Freedom is not free and it has been won and protected by fine…

Alito would give Catholics historic majority on Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (ABP) — If Samuel Alito is confirmed to the Supreme Court, it will give the court a Roman Catholic majority for the first time in its history. That certainly would signal that Catholics — once a persecuted minority in…

Methodist court defrocks lesbian minister, reinstates pastor who denied gay member

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Conservatives in the United Methodist Church scored several victories on Reformation Day Oct. 31, but liberals viewed them more skeptically. A divided nine-member Judicial Council, the highest court in the hierarchical denomination, defrocked a Philadelphia minister for…

Court hears case on Christian sect’s use of hallucinogen in worship

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Hearing a case on All Saints' Day, the Supreme Court struggled with the rights of a tiny Christian group whose members believe the road to sainthood is lined with cups of a hallucinogenic tea the federal government…

Civil-rights pioneer in civic, Baptist life in Texas dies

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — As national civil-rights champion Rosa Parks lay in honor in the United States Capitol Oct. 31, a local pioneer in advancing the cause of racial justice died in Texas. Volma Overton, a longtime civil-rights activist in…

Conference to offer youth multidimensional view of faith

ORLANDO (ABP) — More than 1,600 youth from Baptist, Episcopalian and Presbyterian traditions will get a three-dimensional view of Christianity during a youth conference in January. And, oh yes, they get to go to Disney World. “Faith in 3D” is…

Confirmation of Alito would shift court firmly to right, experts say

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush's nomination of federal appeals judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court could shift the court firmly to the right — immediately and for decades to come — on issues such as abortion rights and the…

Questions surround Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to politicized Hindu ‘cult’

Shared struggles: Kamala Harris and women in ministry

Mass deportations will devastate the economy, business leaders warn

How a Baptist found common grace in the Episcopal Church