LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – A seminary professor says the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention should be an African-American. Russell Moore Russell Moore, dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration at Southern Baptist…
Funds primary need for Joplin recovery
JOPLIN, Mo. (ABP) — Churches and other agencies in Joplin say supplies that have poured in from all over Missouri and throughout the country have meant that space is no longer available for more. The very best way to help…
Arrest of music minister shocks California church
MONTCLAIR, Calif. (ABP) – A self-described “family-oriented” Baptist church with average attendance of about 185 is in the Los Angeles media spotlight after police said they caught its 53-year-old music minister in the act of molesting a 15-year-old girl. Bethany…
Collaborative puts volunteers in diverse spiritual communities
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — While “summer missions” is an icon of the evangelical landscape, orientation of 14 young people June 2-4 at Meredith College signaled a unique missions collaboration between the Alliance of Baptists and the United Church of Christ….
Former NAMB head praying for Obama’s defeat
WASHINGTON (ABP) – A former Southern Baptist Convention official told social conservatives at a weekend rally in Washington he is praying that President Obama is not elected to a second term. “I pray that a trumpet will announce the moving…
WMU of India’s new website enhances anti-poverty goals
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Woman’s Missionary Union of India has just launched a new web site, thanks to a collaboration with its counterpart in Virginia.The new site — at www.wmuv.org/wmui — is the latest joint endeavor in a year-old partnership…
Father’s warnings twice saved Japanese family from nuclear bombs
NEW BERN, N.C. (ABP) — Rieko Suganami Evans remembers the sky glowing strangely red behind a huge cloud and one little airplane flying out of the cloud. It was Aug. 6, 1945, and the Japanese city of Hiroshima had just…
SBC leader criticizes Obama on Israel
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s top public policy official called Barack Obama “the worst president of the United States that Israel has ever had” at a rally for social conservatives held June 3-4 in Washington. “The reason I…
Opinion opens doors to guns in Va. churches, but some pastors are wary
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Virginians can carry firearms into churches and other places of worship, according to a legal opinion issued this spring, but some Baptist pastors in the state say they’re unsettled by the prospect of congregants with handguns….