WASHINGTON (ABP) — A federal appeals court ruled May 7 that a California atheist lacked legal standing to strip the phrase "so help me God" from the presidential oath of office. Michael Newdow, an activist who previously sued unsuccessfully to…
Grand Ole Opry moving to Baptist church
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist congregation will take its place as the "mother church of country music" — at least for a while — as temporary host of the historic Grand Ole Opry on the evenings of May…
Gushee to head new Mercer Center for Theology and Public Life
ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist ethicist David Gushee will head up a new effort by Mercer University to foster what the school calls “theologically based discussions on current issues and controversies.” David Gushee The Mercer Center for Theology and Public Life,…
Biomedical ethics in a brave, new world
POSSUM KINGDOM, Texas (ABP) — When Dennis Trammell exhausted treatments available in the United States for his multiple sclerosis and began looking at other options, he excluded from consideration any possible regimens involving embryonic stem cells. “I didn’t even explore…
Bioethics: Baptist hospital performs innovative cancer treatment
HARLINGEN, Texas (ABP) — A Baptist hospital is one of a few in the country performing a new treatment for cancer patients that kills cancer cells with electricity while not harming surrounding healthy tissue. Daniel Fuentes (right), an interventional radiologist,…
Flooded hotel donates perishable food to Baptists for disaster relief
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Flooded and expected be out of commission for several months, the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville donated thousands of pounds of perishable frozen and refrigerated food to Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief to assist…
Flooded hotel donates food to Baptists for disaster relief
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Evacuated by floodwaters and expected be out of commission for several months, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center donated thousands of pounds of perishable frozen and refrigerated food to Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief to assist with…
Mo. appeals panel returns suit over property to lower court
(Editor's Note: An editing error in the first version of this story — briefly posted May 6 — mischaracterized the appeals court's ruling in the first and second paragraphs. The corrected version is below.) SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — In the…
Vestal confident in future as CBF emerges from its adolescence
MARION, N.C. (ABP) — With the death of founding coordinator Cecil Sherman and the approaching 20th anniversary of its birth, the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is reaching a point where its viability into the future will either be cemented or…
Liberty U. backs seminary president amid charges of misrepresentation
LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — The president of Liberty Theological Seminary, who apologized in February for calling the head of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board a liar, is now being questioned about his own testimony of conversion from radical…
UK Baptists take aim at nuclear weapons
PLYMOUTH, England (ABP) — From the port city that launched the Pilgrims on their journey to what would become the United States, British Baptists took aim May 3 at those in America, their own United Kingdom or elsewhere who would…
British Baptists take aim at nuclear weapons, hear about budget deficit
PLYMOUTH, England (ABP) — From the port city that launched the Pilgrims on their journey to what would become the United States, British Baptists took aim May 3 at those in America, their own United Kingdom or elsewhere who would…