Will we be the right kind of light to the world?

Editor's note: This article updates and corrects the one issued Sat., Jan. 7. DALLAS (ABP) — Pioneer Baptist ethicist Foy Valentine died suddenly Jan. 7 of an apparent heart attack, family members said. He was 82. A native Texan and…

OKLAHOMA CITY (ABP) — A Southern Baptist Convention leader was arrested Jan. 3 in Oklahoma City for offering to have sex with a male undercover police officer. Police arrested Lonnie Latham, pastor of South Tulsa Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla.,…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ABP) — The Florida Supreme Court overturned that state's school-voucher program Jan. 5, saying it violates the Florida Constitution. But the court's decision did not address whether state money for parochial schools violates Florida's religious-freedom laws. Lower state…

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — One year after being placed on probation by its accrediting association, Georgetown College has been “given a clean bill of health,” according to college president Bill Crouch. Georgetown was placed on probation in December 2004 by…

KOKOMO, Texas (ABP) — Wildfires sweeping across North Texas burned down Kokomo Baptist Church Dec. 31. While members of the church were preventing wildfires from destroying homes in their community, a fire turned their church into a “pile of rubble,”…

ROME, Ga. (ABP) — When a shrimp boat accidentally snagged the wreckage of a submerged plane off the Florida coast early Jan. 2, a long, sad wait came to an end for a Baptist family in Rome, Ga. The bodies…

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Fires apparently set by an arsonist on Christmas Eve and in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas Day caused significant damage to a Baptist community ministry in Arlington, Texas. But by the next day, Mission Arlington was…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Lilly Endowment has awarded Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas a second round of funding for its unique pastoral residency program. The $850,000 grant will fund another five years of the program that brings recent seminary graduates…

BUCKHANNON, W. Va. (ABP) — Praises turned to curses for families gathered Jan. 4 inside a West Virginia Baptist church building waiting for news of their loved ones trapped after a coal-mine accident. Relatives of the 13 trapped miners had…