CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) – Richard “Dick” Brogan, a pioneer in building bridges between white and black Baptists in the South, died of a heart attack April 25 at Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Miss. He was 73. Dick Brogan Brogan, a…
Baptists collect more than 3,500 cases of water for wildfire relief
DALLAS (ABP) — Texas Baptist Men collected more than 3,500 cases of bottled water April 21-23 and have begun distributing it to firefighters and victims of Texas wildfires statewide. TBM put out a call for bottled water a few days…
Tenn. ACLU accuses school district of promoting Christianity
GALLATIN, Tenn. (ABP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee has filed a complaint accusing a county school board of violating the separation of church and state by promoting Christianity. The complaint, filed on behalf of parents, alleges a…
Royal wedding holds lessons about church-state separation, experts say
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Two American church-state experts say Friday’s British royal wedding holds lessons about why the marriage of church and state is a bad one. Anticipating nuptials for Prince William and Kate Middleton at London's Westminster Abbey, the Washington…
Tornado stirs up unity
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. (ABP) — Eight days after a tornado demolished much of their campus, members of Elizabethtown Baptist Church in North Carolina were cleaning up and thanking God for the unity among churches and neighbors the tornado spawned. Ironically, church…
Missouri church hit by Good Friday tornadoes
ST. LOUIS (ABP) — Disaster-relief teams and area school children already are assisting with cleanup after tornadoes ripped through portions of St. Louis on Good Friday. The National Weather Service confirmed on April 26 that four tornadoes touched down in…
Pastor tapped as NC editor
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) – North Carolina Baptists have chosen a pastor as editor of their state newspaper. Allan Blume The Biblical Recorder reported April 24 on the April 18 election of Allan Blume, pastor of Mount Vernon Baptist Church in…
Translators’ goal: Make the message clear and plain
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — The preface to the King James Version of the Bible captures Barclay Newman’s respect almost as much as the holy words the translation contains. Barclay Newman And the longtime translator for the American Bible Society is…
After 400 years, does King James still rule?
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Supporters have called it “the book that changed the world.” Detractors have derided it as archaic and inaccurate. But few dispute the impact the King James Version of the Bible has made over the last four…