WACO, Texas (ABP) — More than 1,300 family and friends flooded First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, May 30, to bid farewell to Herb Reynolds, the 11th president of Baylor University. Reynolds died of an apparent heart attack May 25,…
Study says American news media overplays religious conservatives
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new study by two Washington-based groups asserts that the mainstream media, derided by some as liberally biased, actually overemphasizes the importance of religious conservatives. Media Matters for America and Faith in Public Life released the report,…
Pastors challenged to link faith, society in ‘celebration of preaching’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Prophecy is not about gazing into the future. It's about passion for a better world right now, speakers at a celebration of preaching stressed in Nashville, Tenn. While many think of the prophets of the Bible…
N.C. pastor nominated as CBF moderator-elect
ATLANTA (ABP) — North Carolina pastor Jack Glasgow has been nominated to serve as the next moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Pastor of Zebulon Baptist Church in Zebulon, N.C., Glasgow is the former moderator of CBF of North Carolina…
SBC meeting likely to include debate over resolutions, mission boards
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — The upcoming Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting may not, like last year's, feature a contested and unpredictable presidential election — but it is likely to air other contentious issues, according to those who track such…
Festival of homiletics links spoken word and suffering world
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — “Then God showed up, and all hell broke loose.” That's how William Willimon described Pentecost, but he added that it was a far cry from the lukewarm homilies found in pulpits today. A Methodist bishop and…
Pennington-Russell set to make history as pastor of large Decatur church
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — A female pastor who broke the “stained-glass ceiling” in Texas Baptist life is expected to move to a historic church near Atlanta, making it by far the largest Southern Baptist church led by a woman. A…
Opinion: The duty to subordinate that which divides us?
A few nights ago, just at bedtime, my husband and I heard some kind of owl — at least we assumed it was an owl — announcing its presence among the oaks in our backyard. A little research on the…
N.C. Baptist newspaper set to elect PR director Jameson as editor
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Norman Jameson has been recommended as the new editor of the Biblical Recorder, the North Carolina Baptist state newspaper. Jameson, the executive leader for public relations for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, met with…
Herb Reynolds, Baylor president emeritus, dead at 77
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Herb Reynolds, the president who led Baylor University into the Big 12 Conference and founded George W. Truett Theological Seminary, died May 25 in Angel Fire, N.M. He was 77. Reynolds, the 11th president of Texas'…
State’s highest court to hear about consequences of marriage ban
LANSING, Mich. (ABP) — Michigan's highest court agreed May 24 to hear a case on what some opponents of same-sex marriage consider an unintended consequence of banning it. The Michigan Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a lower court's…
UPDATED: Study finds U.S. Muslims better assimilated than European ones
WASHINGTON (ABP) — One of the most comprehensive studies of its kind suggests that Muslims in the United States are better assimilated into the nation's culture – and less likely to espouse extremist beliefs — than their counterparts in Europe….