In three-hour interview, Mohler says he ‘hopes and prays’ Jimmy Carter is born again

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The mystery of the memo has been solved. The memorandum that said getting involved in the Terri Schiavo controversy was “a great political issue” for Republicans was authored by an aide to freshman Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.)….

INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) — Baylor University's Lady Bears basketball team won the university's first NCAA title in a major sport with a decisive 84-62 victory over the Michigan State Spartans April 5 in Indianapolis. The Baylor women's team finished the season…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Kansas voters made that state the 18th in the nation to adopt a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage April 5. With all but one of the state's 210 precincts reporting April 6, voters had approved an amendment…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Trustees of Southwestern Theological Seminary elected a controversial Muslim convert to Christianity as dean of the seminary's new undergraduate school, the College at Southwestern. Emir Caner, 34, was brought up to be a devout Sunni…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Since the Dec. 26 tsunami swept through Southeast Asia, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has been working to ensure clean water reaches tsunami survivors in several countries. Ranging from water-purification tablets in India to larger purification systems capable…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The dynamic bishop from Krakow who became one of the 20th century's most towering figures departed earthly life April 2, but his legacy — including the special esteem in which many American evangelical Protestants held him —…

ATLANTA (ABP) — For the fourth year in a row, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has received a multimillion-dollar anonymous gift for global missions — this time $5 million. The majority of the gift will go to field personnel salaries, benefits,…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Karen Gilbert of Dallas has been hired as the associate coordinator for volunteers and partnerships in the global missions office of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The position is based in Dallas, where Gilbert had been minister of…

LONGVIEW, Texas (ABP) — When Brian Shobert surveyed Longview, Texas, two years ago, he saw something he didn't like — multitudes of people without a connection to a church. Demographic information backed up Shobert's observations. An estimated 80 percent of…