Bob Allen
Church leader questioned about handling of sexual abuse allegation
CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) – Questions about a Mississippi Baptist church’s
handling of child sex-abuse allegations against a former minister are
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SBC leader compares personhood movement to abolition
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s top
ethics leader compared an upcoming vote on Mississippi’s proposed
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Baptist school expels transgender student
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (ABP) – California Baptist University expelled a
transgender student who listed her gender as female on her application
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SBC leader says Calvinism steadily dividing church
A Southern Baptist Convention official says one of the top challenges
facing the nation's second largest faith group (after Roman Catholics)
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Civil rights legend Fred Shuttlesworth dies
Fred Shuttlesworth, the last of the "Big Three" of the civil rights movement along with Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr., died October 5 in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 89.
...Presidential candidate links Israel policy to religious faith
NEW YORK (ABP) – An already contentious debate about the role of
faith in presidential politics took a new twist Sept. 20 when Texas Gov.
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Pastor renews call for database of clergy sex abuse
ENID, Okla. (ABP) – An Oklahoma pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention should reconsider a database to help safeguard churches from clergy who are sexual predators.
...Church leaders challenge Alabama’s immigration law
Faith leaders have joined a coalition of civil rights groups to file a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama's new immigration law described by Gov....
SBC notes a drop in baptisms, attendance
The Southern Baptist Convention has reported declines last year in
several categories traditionally used as markers of denominational
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Groups call on SBC to apologize for treatment of gays
PHOENIX (ABP) – Six groups are joining to call on the Southern Baptist Convention to apologize for its treatment of gays.
...Judge dismisses most of suit challenging Tennessee mosque
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) – A judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit
seeking to halt construction of a mosque on the outskirts of
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Ergun Caner moving to school started by J. Frank Norris
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) – Ergun Caner, the former president of Liberty Theological Seminary demoted for exaggerating claims about his Muslim upbringing, has been hired as provost and vice pres...
Supreme Court sides with Texas in case involving prisoner’s rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled April 20
that a federal law protecting the religious liberty of prison inmates
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Huckabee defends praise of revisionist historian
Former and possible future presidential candidate Mike Huckabee went on Comedy Central's Daily Show to defend his praise for David Barton, a leading advocate for the view that America was ...
Missionary says emotional stress in Japan taking its toll
ALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) – Three weeks after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake
and massive tsunami hit northeast Japan, transportation had opened up
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Land says jury out on whether war in Libya 'just'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – Southern Baptists’ top public-policy expert
said April 2 that whether or not President Obama’s action in Libya
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Missionary says emotional stress in Japan taking its toll
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) – Three weeks after a 9.0 magnitude
earthquake and massive tsunami hit northeast Japan, transportation had
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Land says jury out on whether war in Libya ‘just’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – Southern Baptists’ top public-policy expert
said April 2 that whether or not President Obama’s action in Libya
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Court accepts Wiley Drake's 'birther' appeal
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) -- Nearly two-and-a-half years into his term, a
federal appeals court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case
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Historian Edwin Gaustad dies at 87
SANTA FE, N.M. (ABP) -- Prolific author, influential historian and
lifelong Baptist Edwin Gaustad died Friday, March 25, in Santa Fe, N.M.
He was 87.