Matthew Taylor’s new book explores how ‘the fringe became the carpet’

DALLAS (ABP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will not be allowed to exhibit at the Baptist General Convention of Texas meeting this fall — further fallout from the deteriorating relationship between the Texas convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. A…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — David Brooks, vice president for finance and administration at Baylor University, will leave the school at the end of July to return to private business. Brooks, 45, has been the principal architect of the financial model…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A recent Baylor University graduate says he signed, under protest, a statement admitting he violated the school's conduct code by organizing a gay-rights rally — because he feared he wouldn't be allowed to graduate if he had…

ASHEBORO, N.C. (ABP) – The General Board of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention weighed in on several social issues but declined to address the state's cooperative giving plans during its spring meeting May 18-19 at Caraway. Adopting a statement…

BUIES CREEK, N.C. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention and its conservative statement of faith are not viewed favorably among rank-and-file Baptists in North Carolina, even though most Baptist churches in the state still support the SBC financially. By a…

HOUSTON (ABP) — Churches can reach “Millennials” — the traditionalist generation of Americans born since 1982 — by helping them “figure out the code” to life's profound questions, futurist Neil Howe advised. Howe is a demographer, economist, historian and author…

GALLUP, N.M. (ABP) — A nation at the crossroads just got another traveling companion. Two Texas Baptist churches and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship recently entered into a partnership covenant with Calvary Love Ministries (CLM) of Gallup, N.M. The agreement “calls…

MANCHESTER, N.H. (ABP) — In a historic reunion of sorts, an American Baptist body and a group that emerged from the Southern Baptist Convention recently held a joint meeting in New Hampshire. The American Baptist Churches of Vermont and New…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas is expected to ask Houston Baptist University to rescind its new “fraternal relationship” with the more conservative Southern Baptists of Texas Convention because the relationship “violates the spirit and intent” of…