Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is redeploying some of its missions personnel to address tsunami relief needs. Many missionaries of the Fellowship have relief-related skills to handle water purification and agricultural needs, medical needs, and the logistical needs of organizing volunteers…

At least seven Baptists are among Time magazine's list of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. The magazine devotes the cover of its Feb. 7 issue to the subject of evangelical Protestants in America and their influence over politics…

Baptists in Sweden are offended by the web site of a controversial Baptist Church in Kansas because it claims the deaths of vacationing Swedes in the Asian tsunami disaster is a punishment from God. About 20,000 Swedes were vacationing in…

How do you persuade Czechs-most of whom claim to be atheists-to read the Bible? Alexander Flek, a recent graduate of the International Baptist Theological Seminary and chief translator of a new contemporary version of the Bible in Czech, thinks public…

Millard and Linda Fuller were immediately dismissed Jan. 31 from their jobs with Habitat for Humanity International, the worldwide Christian housing ministry they founded and led for 29 years. The organization's executive committee charged the Fullers with being “divisive and…

By Robert Marus A New York judge has ordered government officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on an equal basis with heterosexual couples. On Feb. 4, New York Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan said a law the state…

By Shawn Hendricks Southern Baptists‚ record giving to tsunami victims and their on-site relief efforts gave trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board plenty to applaud during their Jan. 24-27 meeting in Richmond. But the growing death toll…

Jim Wallis, a fixture of the (admittedly small) evangelical left-wing, is preaching religious values to a Democratic Party increasingly receptive to his message in the face of Republican gains among “moral values” voters. By Jason White Coming out of an…