Bob Allen
Slain pastor laid to rest
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- Mourners filled First Baptist Church in
Arlington, Texas, March 9 to celebrate the life of a young mission
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BJC's Walker urges broader scope for hearing on radical Islam
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist advocate for religious liberty and the
separation of church and state said March 8 that House committee
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Supreme Court sides with Westboro Baptist Church
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on
March 2 that anti-gay protests outside of military funerals by a
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Huckabee draws heat for anti-Islam remarks
Southern Baptist preacher and former presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee has landed in hot water for comments critical of Islam.
Church arsonists get maximum penalty
TYLER, Texas (ABP) -- The mother of one of two men sentenced Jan. 10 to
life in prison for burning down a string of East Texas churches said she
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Westboro Baptist Church set to make unwelcome appearance at Arizona funerals
TUSCON, Ariz. (ABP) -- Arizonans are up in arms over plans by
Westboro Baptist Church to picket the funerals of six people gunned down
in Tuscon Jan. 8.
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.
Baptists debate social drinking
CARROLLTON, Ga. (ABP) -- Two decades after declaring victory in the war
over biblical inerrancy, Southern Baptists are battling about booze.
American Baptist leaders return from study tour in Middle East
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) -- A delegation of 12 American Baptist leaders
recently returned from a 13-day study tour in the Middle East.
Changing culture leads to decline in Baptist revivalism, historians say
ATLANTA (ABP) -- The real culprit behind declining baptisms in the
Southern Baptist Convention might be youth soccer, says historian Bill
Leonard.
Former Baptist school center of gay-rights dispute
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- A private, historically Baptist Christian
college has sparked a national media firestorm over its successful
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Faith leaders support including contraception in health reform
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Religious leaders on both sides of the abortion
debate called on Congress to include free birth control as a component
in health-care reform.
Georgia Baptists oust second church with woman pastor
ALBANY, Ga. (ABP) – For the second year in a row, the Georgia Baptist
Convention has withdrawn fellowship from one of its most historic member
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Iraqi Christians living in fear, say Baptists
As bombings increased recently in Baghdad, a Baptist pastor in the Iraqi capital told a European Baptist leader that Christians there are living in fear, especially after an attack October 31 at a ...
'Truth commission' urges change in conscientious-objector status
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A coalition of more than 60 religious, veterans,
academic and advocacy groups called on the United States military Nov.
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Land criticizes Obama's reference to political 'enemies'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention's top
spokesman for moral concerns added his voice to a chorus of conservative
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Baptist theologian Clark Pinnock dies
Good News Bible translator dies; opposed inerrantists: Robert Bratcher supported dynamic equivalence
Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator of the Good News Bible which became a best-selling version in the 1970s, died July 10 at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...