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…
County judge rules for Mo. Baptist Conv. in foundation lawsuit
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — The Missouri Baptist Convention has won its legal action against the Missouri Baptist Foundation in Cole County Circuit Court after nearly nine years of litigation. But the legal wrangling likely is not over. Outgoing Cole…
Church backing pastor jailed on molestation charges
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (ABP) — An American Baptist church in California is standing behind its pastor, currently held on multiple charges of child molestation. Tommy Gene Daniels, 48. pastor of First Baptist Church in Rio Linda, Calif., was arrested Dec. 9…
Year in review: News makers in 2010
(ABP) — The year 2010 began badly with a deadly Jan. 13 earthquake in Haiti that killed an estimated 230,000 people and affected 3 million. The 7.0 magnitude quake left what was already one of the world's poorest countries in…