‘He taught the Bible every Sunday from World War II to COVID’

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (ABP) — The NCAA placed Gardner-Webb University on probation for three years for multiple violations, including a lack of institutional control. The penalty, announced March 4, was imposed for violations concerning athletic recruiting, academic eligibility, extra benefits,…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas will end its exclusive marketing agreement with the Southern Baptist Convention's publishing house, an agreement that for years has given SBC materials a priority position among the state's 5,600 churches. The…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas will end its exclusive marketing agreement with the Southern Baptist Convention's publishing house, an agreement that for years has given SBC materials a priority position among the state's 5,600 churches. The…

KUMASI, Ghana (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has signed a partnership agreement to do ministry with the All Africa Baptist Fellowship, an umbrella organization of Baptists in Sub-Saharan Africa. The three-year, renewable agreement will deploy CBF resources and volunteers…

DALLAS (ABP) — Children can begin to understand God if parents and churches will help them, according to ministry leaders. Children and preschoolers struggle to comprehend many abstract aspects of God — God's ability to know all, do all and…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — When Esther and Yaacov Horesh describe their faith in Christ, it's a rich blend of their strong Jewish roots and the influence of Baptist missionaries to Israel. “Jesus was Jewish and the first believers were Jewish,”…

CORRECTION: In the Feb. 24 ABP story, “BWA membership committee shares blame for SBC pull-out, says one member,” the seventh graph, reads: “That's the first I've heard of it,” said [Denton] Lotz to the charge that the membership committee's recommendation…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just hours after a Senate hearing on an amendment to outlaw gay marriage nationwide, thousands of same-sex couples and other gay-rights supporters rallied in downtown Washington in response. The Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution held…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — If military and prison chaplains serve in “pastoral roles,” then so do chaplains in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. So say a number of medical chaplains and the professional organizations that oversee their work. There…