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

I love metaphors. I love the meaning they create. I love the dissonance they generate. I love how our imagination goes in a multitude of directions that our logical minds might not explore. All because of metaphors. Metaphors are a...

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Massachusetts legislators reject gay-marriage ban overwhelmingly

BOSTON (ABP) — The Massachusetts legislature has overwhelmingly rejected an effort to repeal legalized gay marriage in that state. The Sept. 14 move bucks a national trend against gay marriage and means same-sex couples may continue to marry in that…

Fellowship hurricane relief focuses on niche needs, long-term efforts

ATLANTA (ABP) — As relief efforts continue in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is using a focused approach to link specific needs with churches that want to help. “We're deliberate in coming alongside other responders to…

Offers of help abound, but most New Orleans seminarians to stay

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Seminaries all across the theological spectrum are offering help to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, which temporarily has moved operations from its flooded campus to a satellite site in Atlanta. Theological schools as diverse as ultraconservative…

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In the Sept. 13 ABP story, “American Baptist region withdraws, may trigger split in denomination,” please replace the 6th paragraph with the following: In a statement Sept. 14, members of the National Executive Council of American Baptist Churches USA said…

American Baptist region withdraws, may trigger split in denomination

COVINA, Calif. (ABP) — In what may be the beginnings of a national split over homosexuality, leaders in a regional group of the American Baptist Churches USA voted Sept. 8 to begin leaving the denomination. Directors of the American Baptist…

Roberts discusses abortion, faith in first round of questioning

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, in his first day of questioning before a Senate panel, danced delicately around questions about how he would rule on abortion but also said he wouldn't let his personal faith and or…

Louisiana paper changes vote, will accept convention control

ALEXANDRIA, La. (ABP) — Just 14 weeks after rejecting the idea, trustees of the Baptist Message of Louisiana voted 6-1 Aug. 30 to dissolve their board and move the newspaper under the control of the Executive Board of the Louisiana…

With hospitals closed, Baptist volunteer helps fill medical need in hurricane zone

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (ABP) — For residents of this coastal town devastated by Hurricane Katrina, seeing their hospital disabled by the storm only added to their desperation. So when Ed Tate and other disaster-relief workers set up a makeshift…

Shelter worker helps reunite separated husband, wife

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — McKinnley Pittman lost all his phone numbers in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, and for eight days he didn't know if he also had lost his wife. Pittman took his wife, Geraldine, to a niece's…