Understanding the David Platt story

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…

ARLINGTON (ABP) — Many advertising executives fail to see any ethical implications of their work, and if they do see moral problems, they refuse to talk about them, according to research by two professors. And such a “see-no-evil, speak-no-evil” attitude…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The advent of state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States was greeted May 17 with celebrations at city halls in Massachusetts — and a somber condemnation from President Bush. At 9:15 a.m. Eastern time, Marcia Kadish and…