FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — The head of the Baptist World Alliance called on Nigeria's president to take action to prevent further violence like an attack that killed the pastor and several members of a Baptist church on Christmas Eve….
Webinars to discuss Christianity, evolution
FREELAND, Wash. (ABP) — A self-proclaimed "evolutionary evangelist" will launch an online series of roundtable discussions for Christians to talk about evolution and the future of their faith on Jan. 15. The six-part seminar, titled The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity:…
Project preps international students to change home countries
WACO, Texas (ABP) — After devoting years to counseling countless young victims of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, Sok (whose full name, like others in this story, is not being used to protect his safety) had grown weary and frustrated….
Project compiles oral histories from age of lynching
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Eighty years ago, an 11-year-old African-American boy walked in the dark on an Alabama country road, listening for the sound of his uncle’s truck and waiting for a promised ride home. But someone else came along,…
‘Dateline NBC’ to air story of murder of Baptist minister, wife
NEW YORK (ABP) — The story of the murders of a Baptist pastor and his wife and the ensuing three challenging decades for their two children who survived the brutal home-invasion robbery is scheduled to air Friday, Jan. 7, on…
Appeals court: Calif. cross on public land unconstitutional
(Editor's note: The original version of this story, published Jan. 5, had errors in the headline and the first paragraph. They both originally stated that the 9th Circuit panel had ruled the cross must be removed. But the court actually…
Q and A: Melissa Rogers on past and future decades in religious liberty
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Melissa Rogers is a veteran religious-liberty attorney and nationally recognized expert in church-state law. She currently is director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. She also serves…
Biologist says Baptist leader lets theology trump science
SAN DIEGO (ABP) — A Christian biologist who advocates dialogue between faith and science admits it will be difficult to sway theologians who subscribe to young-Earth creationism for doctrinaire rather than scientific reasons. Darrel Falk Reviewing gains in the past…
Q and A: Chip Lupu on past and future decades in religious liberty
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Ira “Chip” Lupu is the F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. He is a religious-liberty expert and has spent much of the last decade closely monitoring domestic church-state…
Analysis: Religious-freedom trends in decades past and future
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The challenges surrounding the intersection of church, state and the freedom of conscience, according to experts in the field, were as old as the hills and as new as morning in the last decade. And while the…
Baptist scholar in thick of iPhone app flap
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — A Baptist historian and divinity-school dean is involved in a controversy pitting gay-rights advocates against conservative Christians — with Apple computers caught in the middle. Timothy George In 2009, Timothy George, dean of the ecumenical Beeson…
Christian, Muslim leaders condemn attacks in Egypt, Nigeria
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Christian and Muslim leaders in the United States joined forces to condemn a New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, that killed more than 20 people and wounded nearly 100. The Islamic Society…