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- Land says Obama mandate most anti-Catholic government action in 150 years
- SBC leader criticizes Komen reversal
- Komen denies caving to pressure to defund Planned Parenthood
- Former aide says Southern Baptists had clout in Bush White House
- Mohler says insurance mandate not just 'Catholic' issue
- SBC leader questions judgment of Christians who support Obama
- Pressler confab evokes bad memories for former SBC leader
- Supreme Court declines to review prayer case
- Pressler denies Santorum endorsement was rigged
- President proclaims Religious Freedom Day
- Supreme Court upholds 'ministerial exception' to employment discrimination laws
- Seven arrested in protest of NYC church ban
- Non-Catholics join opposition to contraceptive-coverage mandate
- 'Birther' lawsuit has setback
- S.C. Baptist leader says Gingrich top choice
- Group says Southern Baptists oppose religious equality in the military
- NAE releases paper on climate, poverty
- Church-state group says proposed hospital merger unconstitutional
- Pastor found guilty of child abuse
- Coalition requests policy on faith-based hiring
- Supreme Court won't review NYC ban on worship in schools
- Report: Michele Bachmann no longer attending Baptist church
- SBC leader says churches not immune from 'anti-child culture'
- Letter opposing Christian Zionism sparks Israel debate
- Yale professor cites similarities between Mormons, Southern Baptists
- Environmentalists celebrate pipeline delay
- National Baptists, NAACP co-sponsor empowerment conference
- Religious leaders urge probe into FBI training procedures
- Pastor at center of school-prayer flap
- N.C. county petitions U.S. Supreme Court to hear prayer case
- Church-state expert said minorities face biggest threats to religious liberty
- Faith leader says panel facing funding challenge isn't effective
- Group says IRS should investigate church for endorsing Rick Perry
- Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights pioneer, dies at 89
- Supreme Court hears arguments in important church-state case
- High court says World Vision can hire only Christians
- Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obama's eligibility
- White House condemns death sentence for Iranian Christian
- Presidential candidate links Israel policy to religious faith
- Coalition asks Obama to clarify remarks on faith-based hiring
- Suit challenges tax break for clergy
- Court upholds graduations in church
- State department cites religious freedom violations
- Morally, 9/11 mixed for Americans, theologian says at Baptist seminary
- Baptists among religious leaders in event to mourn victims of 9/11
- Baptist relief agencies begin Mid-Atlantic cleanup in wake of Irene
- Mark Hatfield remembered as champion for religious liberty
- Court strikes down school board's prayer policy
- Evangelicals counter 'Circle of Protection'
- Churches, city preparing to make 10th anniversary of 9/11 a time of healing
- Colleges, universities, pledge to interfaith community service
- Appeals court rules against Forsyth County prayer policy
- SBC leader criticizes Senate Democrats
- 'Circle of Protection' makes case to President Obama
- Faith leader challenges Cain's statements about Islam
- Obama supports repeal of federal marriage law
- NYT says Michele Bachmann now a Baptist
- Gaddy chastises TV station for belittling Mormonism
- Wallis, Land disagree about deficit causes
- Faith leaders join challenge to Alabama's immigration law
- Baptist leaders join coalition in calling for action against Iran
- BJC defends limits on lawsuits against religious organizations
- SBC resolution targets Sharia law
- Funds primary need for Joplin recovery
- Former NAMB head praying for Obama’s defeat
- SBC leader criticizes Obama on Israel
- Joplin church digging out, while mourning three killed in tornado
- Tornadoes continue to spawn in central U.S.
- BJC says Oklahoma Sharia ban unconstitutional
- Christians, Muslims, Jews to share sacred texts
- Religious-freedom ambassador takes oath of office
- BJC says county’s prayer policy threatens religious liberty
- School district sued over religious activity
- BJC says National Day of Prayer proclamation ‘unwise’
- Supreme Court permits taxpayer challenge to funding of Baptist home
- Senate confirms religious-freedom ambassador
- Supreme Court sides with Texas in case involving prisoner’s rights
- Wildfires destroy church facility
- ‘Heaven’s Rain’ filmmaker honored by Attorney General
- Huckabee defends praise for controversial historian
- Land says jury out on whether war in Libya ‘just’
- Supreme Court upholds tax credits for scholarships to religious schools
- Court accepts Wiley Drake's 'birther' appeal
- Pastor facing possible deportation prepares for court, will seek pardon
- Baptist leaders denounce Muslim hearing
- BJC's Walker urges broader scope for hearing on radical Islam
- Attention to anti-gay protest group worries fellow Baptists
- Supreme Court sides with Westboro Baptist Church
- Huckabee draws heat for anti-Islam remarks
- Initial picks for faith-based panel light on Baptists
- Obama re-nominates religious-freedom ambassador
- Obama says presidency has deepened his faith
- Faith leaders criticize Congressman for anti-Muslim remark
- Virginia House passes prayer amendment
- Baptist group welcomes new policy on travel to Cuba
- Westboro Baptist Church changes picket plans
- Church arsonists get maximum penalty
- Appeals court: Calif. cross on public land unconstitutional
- Q and A: Melissa Rogers on past and future decades in religious liberty
- Q and A: Chip Lupu on past and future decades in religious liberty
- Analysis: Religious-freedom trends in decades past and future
- Divide over Islam dominated religious-freedom news in 2010
- As House passes DREAM Act, advocates make final Senate push
- Wiley Drake appealing 'birther' case to state Supreme Court
- Ousted Rep. Chet Edwards recounts religious-liberty fight
- Rev. Lankford goes to Washington
- Christians join last-ditch effort to pass immigration reform for youngsters
- County, church settle lawsuit over Christian school
- Survey: Potential religious landmines for Obama, GOP in next election
- Ability to sue over church-state claims at stake in Supreme Court case
- Analysis: Mixed bag for social conservatives in midterm election
- Consultants, columnists cite faith factor in Republican sweep
- Supreme Court hears arguments involving prisoners’ religious freedom
- Land criticizes Obama's reference to political 'enemies'
- California appeals court strikes down Wiley Drake's 'birther' case
- Most pastors oppose endorsing candidates from pulpit
- New polls show rising support for gay marriage, little change on abortion
- AU urges IRS to probe church; calls for end to National Day of Prayer
- New poll finds large overlap in Religious Right, Tea Party
- Justices struggle with free-speech limits in arguments over church
- Okla. church latest in effort to test boundaries of tax law, politics
- Jimmy Carter's hospital stay extended
- Jimmy Carter reported 'resting comfortably' in Cleveland hospital
- Democracy requires civil discourse, scholar says at Starr inaugural
- Baptist nuclear-disarmament activist hails Senate advance of treaty
- BPFNA urges support for Muslims; N.Y. project director decries discourse
- Baptist leaders meet with Holder, denounce Baptists trashing Islam
- Conservative, moderate Baptist thinkers criticize Glenn Beck rally
- Baptist, other religious leaders challenge anti-Muslim rhetoric
- Religious leaders say questioning Obama's faith is out of bounds
- Growing number confuse Obama’s faith, oppose church politicking
- Analysis: Legal status of mosque project clear; pluralism’s status not
- Hispanic evangelicals warn GOP against alienating Latino voters
- Alliance of Baptists praises marriage ruling; Mohler fears effects on liberty
- Baptist leaders react to Calif. ruling, but religious freedom not impacted
- Ground Zero controversy part of rise in anti-Islamic sentiment, experts say
- Judge blocks Ariz. law; faith leaders, Senate Democrats respond
- Americans United urges IRS to investigate Oklahoma political rally
- Groups across spectrum file briefs supporting Westboro Baptist Church
- BJC files brief opposing sectarian prayer at government meetings
- Baptist church claims funeral protests protected by 1st Amendment
- Comprehensive immigration reform boasts broad array of Baptist backers
- Under questioning, Kagan sheds little light on church-state views
- Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership could affect churches
- W. Va. Baptists mourn Byrd’s passing; Va. Baptist church to host funeral
- Justices say Christian club not exempt from non-discrimination policy
- Wiley Drake says he led Sen. Robert Byrd in 'sinner's prayer'
- Obama nominates Baptist pastor to be religious-freedom ambassador
- Connecticut school board to appeal graduation ruling after all
- Medical-experimentation allegations spur new calls for torture inquest
- Alliance of Baptists supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal
- Baptist ethicist says oil spill a moral issue
- Judge says school cannot hold graduation ceremony in church
- Father of fallen Marine files brief in case against Westboro Baptist Church
- Land, other conservative evangelicals urge comprehensive immigration fix
- Controversial cross at center of recent Supreme Court case reportedly stolen
- Kagan's church-state and social-issue views not clear from scant record
- Court upholds mention of 'God' in presidential oath
- Obama proclaims prayer day despite court ruling against practice
- Independent panel criticizes Obama, Bush, Clinton on religious freedom
- Church-state separationists mixed over desert-cross decision
- Faith leaders protest Arizona's anti-immigration law
- Obama meets with Billy Graham
- Obama administration to appeal ruling against National Day of Prayer
- Judge rules National Day of Prayer unconstitutional
- J.C. Watts says Christians should repudiate extremist groups
- Church-state advocates urge strong successor for Stevens
- Christian leader welcomes new limits on use of nuclear weapons
- Black Baptist leaders attend Obama Easter breakfast, voice support
- Christian leaders from left, right call for civility amid poisoned discourse
- Poll finds religious support for comprehensive immigration reform
- Q and A: Melissa Rogers on Obama faith-based council report
- Analysis: Obama council report partial victory for church-state separation
- Gaddy urges textbook publishers to ignore new Texas standards
- Abortion opponents disagree on health-care bill's pro-life credentials
- Federal appeals court says Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional
- Faith leaders say abortion provisions adequate in health-care bill
- Supreme Court accepts case testing limits of free speech
- In Texas, Religious Right loses fight with national curriculum implications
- Supreme Court declines Okla. county’s attempt to display 10 Commandments
- Baptist expert says Establishment Clause applies to foreign policy
- On eve of summit, people of faith urge health-care reform
- Group says U.S. foreign policy hampered by ignorance about religion
- Faith-based panel narrowly recommends separate 501(c)(3) entities for churches
- Southern Baptist leaders ask Obama to intervene on behalf of missionaries
- Obama, Clinton at prayer breakfast denounce Ugandan anti-gay proposal
- Study finds abstinence-only programs effective in delaying sex
- Drake's lawyer claims legal precedent for courts to remove a head of state
- Study shows significant increase in American families going hungry
- In jobs-focused State of the Union, Obama also tackles gays in military
- Interfaith Alliance head protests Bible verses on military gun sights
- Social-studies-curriculum debate in Texas has national implications
- New statement ‘first-ever consensus’ on religious expression and U.S. law
- Scholar: Bush faith-based push failed to boost churches' social-service role
- Report says use of death penalty on decline in United States
- In 2010 predictions, Pat Robertson says America under God's wrath
- Evangelical leaders support abortion compromise in health-care plan
- Appeals court allows suit over Ky. Baptist institution to proceed
- U.S. religious groups square off over bill imposing new Iran sanctions
- D.C. set to become 6th jurisdiction in U.S. with legal same-sex marriage
- Clergy drop in poll rating honesty and ethics of professions
- Anti-gay Phelps clan loses challenge to Nebraska flag-desecration law
- Supreme Court to deal with rights of religious groups at state schools
- Ethicist: Obama's Afghanistan plan falls short of just-war criteria
- Did Huckabee rely too much on faith in making pardon decisions?
- Wiley Drake lifts call for 'imprecatory prayer' against President Obama
- Group says proposed Okla. Christian prison likely unconstitutional
- Christian, other faith leaders urge Congress to close Guantanamo
- Baptist leaders say Muslims should not be banned from military
- Texas textbook battles have national significance, scholar says
- Analysis: Off-year elections produce mixed bag for religious conservatives
- Obama signs bill extending hate-crimes protections
- SBC's Land continues to warn about dealing with Iran
- SBC leader apologizes for Nazi analogy regarding Obama plan
- SBC leader says Obama Nobel selection political
- Faith leaders urge 'adaptation' funding in climate-change bill
- Supreme Court gets technical in arguments on Mojave cross
- Judge delays ruling on dismissal of Wiley Drake's 'birther' case
- Court turns away attempt to force ‘Choose Life’ plates on Illinois
- Evangelical leader praises Obama's comments on nuclear weapons
- Church-state groups press Holder to withdraw Bush-era hiring memo
- Judge sets court date in 'birther' case filed by Wiley Drake
- Pastor accuses school district of duplicity in banning Obama speech
- Religious-freedom groups mourn Kennedy, cite church-state views
- Torture opponents renew calls for inquest after release of CIA report
- Obama appeals to faith groups on reform; abortion questions remain
- Faith groups begin media blitz for health-care reform
- Church-state groups concerned about nominated Army secretary
- Churches affected by FCC changes on wireless-microphone frequencies
- Obama to nominate prominent Christian geneticist to head NIH
- Report says United States already feeling effects of global warming
- Religious leaders call for inquiry into U.S. use of torture
- Senate votes to allow FDA to regulate tobacco
- Poll shows little change on marriage, but more support for other gay rights
- Group says IRS should review Liberty University's tax-exempt status
- 'Year of the Bible' resolution roils Congress
- Calif. high court upholds Prop 8, but does not revoke existing marriages
- Experts: Sotomayor’s record on religion unlikely to stir controversy
- Poll says Americans moving rightward on social issues
- Gallup poll finds ‘pro-life’ majority for first time, but some question results
- Conservative ‘National Day of Prayer’ supporters upset over Obama snub
- Same-sex marriage advances in Maine; N.H. and N.Y. next
- D.C. Council gay-marriage vote could put issue before Congress
- Christian radio ads urge support for climate change legislation
- U.S. officials destroy Afghan-language Bibles allegedly used in proselytizing
- Evangelical global-warming skeptics hire lobbyist
- Religious freedom panel adds Nigeria to list of world's worst violators
- Hate-crimes bill divides evangelicals
- Christian peace activists seek apology for Iraq war
- Groups urge Obama to proclaim 'inclusive' day of prayer
- Draft stem-cell guidelines still won’t allow funds for cloning
- Obama rounds out appointments to faith council; Dungy not on list
- Top Army chaplain raises Jewish ire with call for fasting during Passover
- Coalition takes aim at reducing domestic, global poverty
- State Dept. reveals predecessors’ designations of freedom violators
- Arizona high court declares state’s voucher program unconstitutional
- Southern Baptist ethics head lobbies for coal, against cap and trade
- Groups oppose federal rule limiting books in prison chapels
- Obama ends Bush restrictions on embryonic stem-cell study
- Christians, other torture opponents call for commission to investigate
- Faith-based leaders say budget is major shift in poverty policy
- Justices decline to upend decision barring N.J. coach from prayers
- Court says Montana election law wrongly applied to church
- Supreme Court: Sect can’t force Utah city to erect monument
- Obama, in first address to Congress, focuses on economy, justice goals
- Supreme Court agrees to hear case involving cross on federal land
- Former Whitewater prosecutor says Proposition 8 about voters
- Obama rearranges faith-based office; vows to maintain church-state wall
- SCHIP passage to add 4 million children to insurance rolls
- Obama picks religious adviser DuBois for faith-based post; questions remain
- Religious torture opponents pleased, concerned by Obama executive order
- Multi-racial inaugural throng elated to watch racial barrier crumble
- Obama inaugural events bracketed by prayers, controversy, ecumenism
- Ecumenical group says stimulus package should include the poor
- Liberals, evangelicals call for common agenda on abortion, sexuality
- Faith leaders urge Obama to ban torture on Inauguration Day
- Griffin Bell, former Carter official, Baptist statesman, dies
- Wide variety of Baptists, other faiths found in 111th Congress
- Rick Warren accuses critics of 'Christophobia'
- Pentagon tightens policy on distributing religious literature to recruits
- Christian leaders call for easing travel restrictions to Cuba
- Rick Warren to give invocation at Obama inauguration
- Evangelical leaders seek broad moral agenda in Cizik replacement
- Mike Huckabee says American Christians 'persecuted'
- Supreme Court orders new review of detainee religious-rights case
- Judge halts Christian-themed South Carolina license plates
- Controversy over NPR comments forces NAE lobbyist Cizik out
- President Bush discusses faith in TV interview
- Christian leaders urge Obama to make Israeli-Palestinian peace top priority
- Richard Land compares President Bush to Harry Truman
- Group sues Ky. for law requiring credit to God for security
- Bush administration leaves major mark on faith-based funding, experts say
- Religious leaders ask Obama
to ban torture through order
- Dobson claims Obama election
sets pro-lifers back severely
- Black Baptist leaders: Obama win
moves us closer to King's dream
- Experts: Obama win may signal
start of religious-voter shift
- Obama election victory signals shift,
but Religious Right still scores wins
- Michelle Obama speech to Baptists
spurs request for IRS investigation
- Survey: Protestant pastors favor
McCain, but many still undecided
- Religious Right appeals
to fear as election nears
- Religious ‘test’ for public
office? Yes and no
- Constitution aside, why should churches avoid partisanship?
- ‘Values’ distinguish both
candidates and voters
- Carter: Next president should focus on human rights
- Survey: On foreign policy, U.S. both blessed by God and on wrong track
- Evolution critics added to panel that recommends Texas school standards
- Poll: Latino Protestants switching back to Democrats this election
- Pastor says he’s ‘poli-ticked’ about election
- Candidates spar over abortion in final presidential debate
- Connecticut latest jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage
- Study: Younger evangelicals less conservative than elders
- Little framed in moral terms during presidential debate
- Support for ‘two-state’ solution troubles some Palin backers
- Challenge to ban on church politics may not excite Americans, polls say
- VP debate explores little on hot-button social issues
- Young evangelicals differ from elders on gays, similar on abortion rights
- Palin terms sexuality ‘choice,’ sidesteps abortion in interview
- Faith leaders to candidates: Stop neglecting Gulf Coast
- Poll: On torture, evangelicals not looking to Bible, doctrine
- Experts: National security not ensured by torture
- Legislators call faith leaders to focus on poverty issues
- Attacks on Obama, picking Palin rally conservative base at RNC
- Believers minister to delegates, law enforcement during DNC
- Social conservatives express delight at McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin
- Citing Scripture on historic day, Obama accepts DNC nomination
- Standish named new head of religious-freedom commission
- Saddleback forum points out candidates’ differences, similarities
- Faith leaders ask DNC, RNC to showcase anti-poverty plans
- Appeals-court decision means Christian college gets state aid
- 4th Circuit appeals court upholds Va. city's 'non-sectarian' prayers
- Obama, McCain's first joint appearance set for Saddleback
- Declaration responds to torture-policy shift
- Helms, ultra-conservative icon, steeped in moderate Baptist life
- Felice Gaer to serve as chair of religious-freedom panel
- On Bush’s faith-based programs, Obama says save best, ditch rest
- Analysis: Dobson confused at best about Obama speech, defenders say
- Polygamist sect’s children sing, write poems to thank Baptists
- Obama departure from Trinity garners concern, criticism
- Furman faculty, students divided over Bush speech
- Grassley targets ministries’ alleged abuse of tax laws
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- Historic MLK Day service held in Russia
- Two years after quake, Baptist dedicate school, orphanage in Haiti
- CBF workers report progress, need on second anniversary of Haiti quake
- Gaza Baptist Church, 'functioning' but 'restricted,' says Brother Andrew
- Baptists, Pentecostals seek common ground
- Carter Center, Hong Kong Baptist University launch joint venture
- Gay-marriage stand costs pastor his pulpit
- Baptist fined in Uzbekistan
- Australian Baptists oppose detention of asylum seekers
- International social work program gets major gift
- BWA leaders call African Baptists to 'justice and deeds of mercy'
- British Baptist newspaper to cease publication
- Baptists, Orthodox consider formal dialogue
- BWA leaders bring 'fullness of what it means to be Baptist' to peace summit
- Chinese government awards Baptist missionary
- Baptists fined for unregistered worship in Belarus
- Baptist peace group urges prayer for Liberian elections
- BWA voices solidarity with Iranian pastor facing death sentence
- Baptist delegation visits Uzbekistan
- Violence taking toll on Syria's Christians
- Baptists aid Syrian refugees pouring into Lebanon
- Peacemaker crosses globe to share non-violent approach to conflict
- Australian Baptists oppose gay marriage
- Former Congressman, civil-rights activist, among freed Libyan captives
- Baptist leaders urge Naga reconciliation
- Family offers ministry of presence in Colombia
- Baptists in Azerbaijan warned not to meet without state approval
- U.S. Baptists provide funds for drought-ravaged East Africa
- BWA expresses solidarity with Baptists in Norway
- Some troubled by 'Christian' label for Norwegian shooter
- China Christian Council confirms continued ties with Virginia Baptists
- US Baptists building bridges in China through basketball clinics
- Nigerian Baptist head says government unable to control radical sect
- Australian Baptist leaders clarify stance on gay marriage
- Baptist World Alliance presents human-rights award
- BWA to explore dialogue with Pentecostals, Orthodox
- BWA commission urges continued dialogue with Muslims
- Burmese refugees joyful despite persecution, say visitors
- Cuban prison chaplains graduate
- WMU of India’s new website enhances anti-poverty goals
- Ministry celebrates 15 years of broadcasting in the Arab world
- Baptists help victims of Myanmar earthquake
- Ministry reaches women, children in city dump
- Texas disaster-relief team delivers kerosene, food to Japanese churches
- Missionary says emotional stress in Japan taking its toll
- Oklahoma pastor to share God's love in Japan
- Texas Baptist disaster-response team scheduled to go to Japan
- Rescue workers, Japanese Baptists describe dire situation
- Baptist leader says 3/11 will be Japan's 9/11
- Baptist peace mediator in Nicaragua dies
- Baptists prepare response to Japan quake, tsunami
- TV jamming in Middle East affects Christian network
- To help in Middle East: Encourage U.S. to advocate for values
- BWA leader calls for ‘peaceful’ steps to end protests in Egypt
- India's Supreme Court changes ruling after protest by Christians
- Baptists work for peace, relief amid ethnic violence in India
- One year after quake, Haiti faces long road to recovery
- Initiative aims to improve housing, employment situations in Haiti
- Leaders call for prayer, aid as Sudan votes on future
- Baptist leader calls on Nigeria's president to ensure safety
- Project preps international students to change home countries
- Christian, Muslim leaders condemn attacks in Egypt, Nigeria
- Indian Baptist educator breaks stained-glass ceiling
- American Baptist leaders return from study tour in Middle East
- Report details hopeless conditions in Gaza
- Four Baptist students killed in Ghana accident
- Burmese Baptist church ordered to halt worship services
- U.S. opposes U.N. ban on defamation of religion
- Baptists hail release of Burmese democratic leader
- Former British Baptist head David Russell dies
- Texas Baptists provide supplies for victims of violence in Mexico
- Christian, Muslim leaders call for interfaith crisis-prevention group
- Four Baptists arrested in Azerbaijan
- Russian leaders decry arson attacks on churches
- Iraqi Baptist pastor says Baghdad's Christians living in fear
- Baptists aid Haiti cholera victims
- Judge upholds fines against Baptists in Uzbekistan
- Baptist missionaries fight cholera outbreak in Haiti
- Global Christians protest China barring nationals from conference
- Baptist campaigns for Congo crimes justice
- Black British Baptist churches reaching out to white working class
- European Baptists, other Protestants sign cooperation pact
- Baptist leaders hail Nagaland peace pact
- World leaders cite progress, challenges at UN poverty summit
- American Baptist AIDS workers arrested in Zimbabwe
- Baptist groups: Donations not keeping pace with Pakistan relief needs
- Christian group questions Iraq future as Obama announces end to war
- Baptists give money for flood relief in Pakistan
- Baylor student-athletes’ mission to Africa bears fruit
- Georgians learn German from Austrians thanks to Virginia Baptists
- Baptists respond to massive Pakistan flooding
- Uzbekistan cracks down on unregistered Baptists
- Kenya adopts Constitution despite opposition from Christian groups
- Environmentalists urge closure of Jesus' baptism site
- Catholics in Nagaland claiming persecution at hands of Baptists
- In Grand-Goave, U.S. Baptists offer Haitians a hand with church, clinic
- Six months after massive earthquake, Haiti still has a long way to go
- CBF-funded Mercer team to attend to Haiti’s psychological wounds
- Anti-terrorist police crack down on Baptists in Kazakhstan
- Baptists sending humanitarian aid to strife-ridden Kyrgyzstan
- Religious liberty in China improving, still room for progress, leaders say
- Former Rwandan Baptist pastor convicted of genocide
- Missionaries from global South to North face hurdles, speaker says
- Global Baptists ministering at World Cup soccer tourney
- CBF, Haitian Baptists sign three-year agreement for earthquake recovery
- American Baptist leader says Gaza flotilla reveals need for Mideast peace
- Baptist nurse answers call to aid ailing Haitians
- 'Idaho 10' member blames UNICEF for arrests; UNICEF disputes allegations
- Final U.S. Baptist released from Haitian jail
- Some pastors still living in tents as quake-rocked Chile's winter nears
- Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan reports another run-in with police
- Texas Baptist choir tour among travel disrupted by Icelandic volcano's ash
- Russia adoption controversy hasn’t affected Buckner program
- CBF teams with Mercer to provide prostheses for Haitian amputees
- CBF Haiti relief donations top $1.1 million; recovery projects continue
- U.S. teens' pocket change gives South African village access to clean water
- Nigerian Baptist leader says clashes political, not religious
- Last Baptist held in Haiti faces new charge
- American Baptist donations to Haiti top $1.2 million
- Uzbekistan levies massive fines on Baptists for meeting without a license
- Uzbek Baptist gets 10 years in jail
- Legal expert says remaining Baptist jailed in Haiti likely to be set free
- CBF establishes relief fund for Chile; Chilean Baptists describe needs
- Baptists pledge support for earthquake victims in Chile
- Uzbek Baptists claim continued harassment by government officials
- Freed Baptists hope attention will now focus on Haiti's needs
- North Carolina Baptist Men plan long-term effort in Haiti
- Pastor stays out of division reported among jailed Americans in Haiti
- Church seeks forgiveness for mission team detained in Haiti
- Baptists continue to meet needs in Haiti despite major obstacles
- Baptist group arrested in Haiti denies trafficking charge
- ABC seeks doctors, nurses for weeklong stints in Haiti
- Baptist World Aid workers say situation in Haiti still desperate
- ABC, CBF workers describe aftermath, future in Haiti
- New evangelical group calls for cancellation of Haiti's debt
- Baptist World Alliance pledges solidarity with Baptists in Malaysia
- Baptist World Alliance rescue team arrives in Haiti
- Prominent Baptist pastor in Port-au-Prince confirmed among dead in Haiti
- Haitian Baptist college president describes country 'in shock'
- Update: Baptists prep for immediate, long-term responses to Haiti quake
- Watchdogs: Persecution of Christians in N. Korea likely to worsen in 2010
- Baptists in Texas city inspired to launch church for Burmese refugees
- Jimmy Carter apologizes to Jews for controversial past statements
- Study says majority of world's population faces religious restriction
- Rick Warren breaks silence on Ugandan anti-gay law
- Carter says religion can help end violence against women
- Baptist World Alliance promotes Human Rights Day Dec. 12-13
- U.S. Christian leaders denounce Ugandan anti-gay bill
- Judge in Tajikistan orders Baptist church to close
- Baptist church in El Salvador mourns members lost in flood
- Team from Dallas church ministers to incarcerated Middle Eastern girls
- Eight missing after Hurricane Ida destroys Baptist church in El Salvador
- Russian Baptists alarmed by proposed changes to religion law
- BMS World Mission writes prime minister about global warming
- Court in Uzbekistan finds Baptists guilty of running kids' camp
- Annual religious-freedom report cites concerns in familiar, new places
- Russian Baptists schedule historic rally with Orthodox, Catholics
- Texas Baptist Men offer relief and hope after Philippine flooding
- Uzbek Baptist leaders stand trial on charges supporters call false
- European Baptists ponder future of international seminary
- Global Baptists responding to Pacific Rim disasters
- U.S. Christian leaders join calls to restore civil rights in Honduras
- Baptists appeal for aid after typhoon hits Southeast Asia
- Baptists in Bahamas protest nation's rising murder rate
- Pakistani pastor asks world’s Baptists for prayer support
- Faith leaders urge G-20 summit to remember the poor
- British Baptists visit China with view to re-establishing Baptist work
- Uzbek Baptist head, two other leaders face 3-year prison term
- Shoes for Orphan Souls collects 2 millionth pair of shoes
- Former Rwandan Baptist pastor on trial for genocide
- Baylor, Buckner partnership plants seeds of hope in Kenya
- Baptists respond to Taiwan typhoon
- Vandals target group planning pro-family gathering in Amsterdam
- Baptists celebrate 400th anniversary near site of movement’s origin
- Q&A with BWA president-elect
- Virginia Baptists' John Upton nominated as BWA president
- Uzbekistan charges Baptist camp with crimes
- Bullard to lead North American Baptist Fellowship
- Peck: Christians and Muslims should speak with, not about, each other
- Buckner suspends mission trips to Honduras
- Lilian Lim, pioneer Asian Baptist woman, dies in Singapore
- Retired BWA leader Lotz receives freedom award from Adventists
- Jimmy Carter says Palestinians in Gaza treated like animals
- CBF Carter Offering supports female church planters in Middle East
- Religious leaders say time running out for Palestinian Christians
- Obama, in speech to world’s Muslims, touts religious freedom, cooperation
- Amnesty International seeks 'New Deal' for human rights
- Baptists minister to war victims in Sri Lanka
- CBF missionaries address needs of India's marginalized Banjara people
- Violence mars Easter in northern Nigeria
- Police raid Baptist home in Azerbaijan
- Evangelical groups protest new religion law in Kyrgyz Republic
- Russian Baptists denounce bogus newspaper as political smear
- Baptist pastor convicted in Azerbaijan
- Baptist, Orthodox leaders hold groundbreaking conference in Europe
- Assyrian Christians appeal to White House for autonomy in Iraq
- Australian Baptists begin response to devastating Victoria bush fires
- Childs makes 'tiny stitches' in lives of children, youth in Croatia
- Interfaith leaders urge Obama to act quickly on Middle East peace
- Deadly Zimbabwe cholera outbreak crime against humanity, group says
- U.S. team's mission changes after Costa Rica earthquake
- Baptist groups send aid to Gaza victims
- Gaza Baptist Church caught in crossfire
- Russian Baptists mourn death of Orthodox leader
- Baptists in Russian city claim bureaucrats restricting religious freedom
- Historic Anabaptist writings to be available online
- Religious leaders protest violence against Christians in India
- Activity reported on anti-conversion bill in Sri Lanka
- Azerbaijani pastor on trial released to house arrest
- CBF provides $10,000 in relief
for escalating crisis in Congo
- Baptist World Aid
seeks funds for Congo
- Azerbaijani Baptist pastor’s trial
delayed; attorney cries foul
- Baptist leaders from Russia,
Georgia seek reconciliation
- Baptist pastor’s trial begins;
Azerbaijanis claim intimidation
- Congo: New fighting creates
latest humanitarian crisis
- Global Christians signing on to meet Micah Challenge
- Baptists aiding after Georgia crisis; Russians seek talks
- Reports: Several dead in India after Hindu-Christian clashes
- Americans act as Georgian Baptists call for aid, end to conflict
- In run-up to Beijing Olympics, China increasing persecution of Christians
- Prosecutor asks international court to charge al-Bashir with genocide
- John Templeton, religious philanthropist, dead at 95
- Baptists aid displaced migrant workers in South Africa
- Baptists, other Christians already in China beat limits on foreign help
- Iraq status reportedly divides panel on religious freedom
- Baptists
- Retiring CBF head to lead new center for Baptist leadership
- Seminary trustees to confront president over audit, management issues
- Veteran Baptist communicator Lloyd Householder dies
- Former Baptist minister paroled for sex crimes
- Woman to lead American Baptists in Indiana, Kentucky
- Anti-violence advocate awarded by FBI
- Leonard installed in Baptist studies chair at Wake divinity school
- African-American Texas Baptist pioneer dies
- CBF search committee seeks input
- Church administrator charged with theft
- Jim Newton, Baptist journalist, dies at 75
- Board elects Hardage BGCT executive director
- Youth minister arrested
- Former congressman named to Baylor chair
- 2 churches join Alliance of Baptists
- Former youth pastor, teacher charged with molestation
- Francis McBeth, world-renowned composer, dies at 78
- Gilyard hasn't ruled out starting new church
- Former pastor claims reassignment was race-based
- Clergy sex offender released from prison
- 2011 notable deaths
- Year in review: Newsmakers in 2011
- BWA, SBC leaders meet for first time since 2004
- Former staffer at SBC mega-church focus of abuse investigation
- SNAP protests pharmacy license for accused predator
- Alleged peeping evangelist charged in third town
- Pastor describes 'reform' of Baptist church
- Hardage nominated for BGCT executive director
- Task force completes study of SBC name change
- Ecumenical dialogue clarifies Baptist beliefs, says prof
- CBF gets grant to assist ministers in first church
- Former pastor, educator Jack McEwen dies
- Group urges churches to open pulpits to first-time women preachers
- Pastor says Jesus wouldn't remove church with woman pastor
- Church withdraws from association that ousted woman pastor
- Parole decision delayed for former music minister convicted of abuse
- Church leader questioned about handling of sexual abuse allegation
- Race issue rises in St. Louis Covenant dialogue
- CBS News to focus on Burmese refugees at Kentucky church
- Founding ABP board member Ardelle Clemons dies
- Passport devotional series for Advent and Christmas now online
- St. Louis 'Covenant' event opens with worship, ends with ministry
- News Analysis: Churches not typically first reporters of sexual abuse
- Low attendance disappoints New Baptist Covenant planners
- Panel: Churches need to take lead in race relations
- OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending
- Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity
- New Baptist Covenant speakers proclaim 'release' to captives
- Sports complex opens with Pujols basketball game
- Diverse Canadian Baptists cover miles, cultures
- Baptist Peace Fellowship to re-issue sexuality resource
- American Baptist leader named president-elect for NCC
- CBF coordinator search committee named
- Virginia Baptists elect first black president, restore ties to Averett
- NC Baptists support gay-marriage ban
- Book covers Civil War in Baptists' own words
- Ohio Baptists ask NAMB to reconsider funding cuts
- Church converts donated bank building to ministry center
- Mercer grants domestic-partner benefits to gays
- Additional charges filed against alleged peeping evangelist
- New Baptist Covenant II finalizes speaker lineup for Nov. gathering
- Pastor apologizes for Halloween tract
- New Mexico Baptists affirm Glorieta
- Evangelist charged with video voyeurism
- Shorter University adds new faith statements
- Mississippi Baptists back 'Personhood Amendment'
- CBF finishes fiscal year 15 percent behind budget
- Church deemed too Calvinist for Kentucky Baptist association
- BWA officials to join global religious leaders for day of prayer for peace
- BGCT approves budget, rejects attempt to restore Baylor to full level
- Pair charged with theft from Baptist church
- BGCT approves renegotiated agreement with Baylor University
- CBF task force suggests organizational change
- Richmond seminary marks 20 years since first classes began
- CBF officers narrowing list of nominees for coordinator search committee
- Master's in Christian leadership for Hispanics created by DBU & BUA
- Texas Baptists push to eliminate violence along Mexico border
- Baptist General Convention of Texas celebrates 125 years of ministry
- SBC leader cites Calvinism as top challenge
- Trial date set for accused clergy predator
- Buckner closes retirement home
- Advocate says Baptists ill-equipped to address sexual abuse by clergy
- Missouri Baptists elect leader
- Baptist groups denounce transgender attacks
- Woman admits to embezzling funds from Baptist nursing school
- Baptist camp director charged with online solicitation of a minor
- Virginia Baptists to consider renewed ties with Averett University
- Man sentenced in church embezzlement
- Pastor acquitted on molestation count
- Former preacher sentenced for incest
- Professor says Adam's sin was failure to lead
- Former music minister indicted
- BGCT moves forward with funding cut, new agreement with Baylor
- CBF young leader network sponsoring Kentucky retreat
- Leland Center relocates
- After 20 years, BTSR celebrates its past, looks toward the future
- CBFMO offers incentive for churches to consider women as pastors
- Baptist university contributes to Pujols Foundation as partner
- Jameson joins Wake Forest advancement staff
- Second CBF leader announces retirement plans
- Southern Baptists consider sale of conference center
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship effort to address rural poverty in Missouri
- Southern Baptists consider name change
- Court refuses to intervene in church dispute over elder rule
- South Carolina CBF hosting Brian McLaren
- Church building homes for victims of spring tornadoes
- Wake Forest endowed chair honors Baptist leaders
- Baptist university president plans August 2012 retirement
- CBF officers seek search committee members
- Baptists minister to physical, spiritual needs caused by Texas wildfires
- Vestal announces decision to retire as CBF executive coordinator
- Former music minister charged with sex crimes
- Texas Baptists support firefighters battling wildfires
- T, Kathie Thomas leaving Oklahoma CBF
- Judge grants Villanueva motion to stay in US
- Church embezzler gets 44 months in prison
- Prosecutors want information from church about former minister suspected of child abuse
- Richmond churches offer showers, laundry to neighbors still in dark
- Holbrook joins Academy of Preachers leadership
- Irene only most visible disaster
- Longtime SBC leader Cecil Ray dies
- Baylor faces potential reduction in BGCT funding plan
- Churches near quake's epicenter left with cracked walls, broken glass
- Voice injury forces pastor to take medical leave
- Fulbright to retire from WMU-NC
- Central Seminary prepares students for urban ministry
- ABP to honor Bob Stephenson with Founders Award
- Kentucky association ousts church for opening doors to pro-gay group
- Police ask judge to dismiss lawsuit over shooting of Georgia pastor
- Lottie Moon's death story a myth, new book contends
- Missouri Baptist Foundation elects president
- Progressive National Baptist Convention celebrates 50 years
- BTSR announces new staff members
- Can technology usher in another Pentecost?
- Pastor renews call for database of clergy credibly accused of sex abuse
- Texas Baptists send $25,000 for East Africa famine relief
- Abuse confession raises questions of cover-up by Baptist mega-church
- 'Send Me, O Lord, Send Me' author Ross Coggins dies
- Pastor retires from church that was model for 'The Waltons'
- November New Baptist Covenant II gatherings taking shape
- Mars Hill pours itself into Madison County
- Former British Baptist pastor sentenced for sexual abuse
- Hall announces retirement; Reyes named Buckner CEO
- Author seeks stories of 'exiled' young adult Baptists
- Pastor disagrees with SBC leader about homosexuality
- Former Gardner-Webb prof acquitted of prostitution charge
- Church faces ouster for allowing pro-gay group to meet
- Pastor says God chooses who will be saved
- Missouri Baptist Foundation files second appeal
- Baptists travel to Malaysia for annual meeting
- Hispanic Convention creates its own governing board
- Central Seminary launches full teaching center in Tennessee
- CBF founder says freedom movement must avoid 'sloppy discipleship'
- Passport hires staff member to help children, youth discover God's calling
- CBF pastor says tell stories of why moderates left, not who
- Blind artist Ken Medema articulates his art form
- Hull offers interim vision report
- Dunn uplifts 'soul freedom' at BJC luncheon
- CBF commissions self-funded missionaries
- Reduced financial contributions still a problem, CBF council told
- Report: Women ministers gaining ground in Baptist life
- AFA's Bryan Fischer accuses SBC of pandering to gays, illegal aliens
- Author says tale of pistol-packing preacher holds lasting lessons
- Mohler says Baptists must repent of homophobia
- Southern Baptists ‘cannot commend’ new NIV Bible translation
- Southern Baptists affirm doctrine of hell
- Southern Baptists re-elect president
- Southern Baptists issued '1 percent challenge' for Cooperative Program
- Executive Committee recommends changes for mission boards
- SBC reports statistical decline
- Longtime Baptist journalist Bill Junker dies
- 2010 Lottie Moon Offering falls short
- Professor says Southern Baptists should elect black president
- Arrest of music minister shocks California church
- Joplin pastor: Where do we go from here?
- Baptist college hires female chaplain with ties to CBF
- Caribbean Baptists voice solidarity with U.S. tornado victims
- Theology no issue as volunteers Converge on disaster sites
- South African Baptist scholar dies
- In November, Baptists in Virginia will be dancing in the streets -- literally
- Southern Baptists to review assignments of mission boards
- Causey retires from Center for Congregational Health
- BGCT Executive Board calls for renegotiated agreement with Baylor
- Focus stays on outreach with new facility
- Three die at Joplin church hit by tornado
- Historical Society celebrates Baptists’ 'singing faith' with hymn festival
- Former IMB chair nominated as Kentucky exec
- Pastor charged with molestation
- Ergun Caner moving to school begun by J. Frank Norris
- Lawyer: Former prof’s lawsuit against Baptist college ‘moot’
- Pastor, denominational statesman James Pleitz dies
- Ed Vick, moderate Baptist lay leader, dies
- North Carolina journalist joins staff of Religious Herald
- Big Muddy/Clean Water awarded $5,000 grant
- Baylor School of Social Work welcomes alumni from Carver School
- Alliance of Baptists acts out call for economic justice
- 'Baptists Today' launches Bible study curriculum
- Virginia Baptists exploring renewed ties with Averett
- Texas Baptist Men clear trees, lift spirits following Alabama tornadoes
- Race relations: Progress slow but steady
- After 30 years, moderate advocacy group ends nominee endorsements
- Texas Baptist Men chainsaw crews headed to Alabama
- Chaplains help deal with shock after wind passes
- Baptist race-relations pioneer dies
- Baptists collect more than 3,500 cases of water for wildfire relief
- Tornado stirs up unity
- Missouri church hit by Good Friday tornadoes
- Pastor tapped as NC editor
- Editor calls for resolution targeting Westboro Baptist Church
- Online auction to raise legal fees for custody battle
- Donors pledge $500,000 in matching gift campaign for BTSR
- BaptistWay offers mp3 and Kindle Bible study resources
- Pioneering Baptist ethicist stressed applying the gospel to all of life
- Baptists build home for family living in water tank
- Scholarship named after slain pastor
- CBF adjusts to changing missions landscape
- Virginia CBF explores being Baptist in the 21st century
- State CBF challenges churches for global missions
- Death Row inmates’ families find refuge at Hospitality House
- College president has bypass surgery
- Churchnet meeting focuses on hope
- Pastor charged with viewing child porn at library
- ABP to honor Puckett for lifetime achievement
- North Carolina CBF names leadership development coordinator
- DC convention elects exec in divided vote
- Historian Edwin Gaustad dies at 87
- Former youth pastor charged with sexual assault
- BTSR trustees chart future course
- Details emerge in fatal amusement train accident
- Pastor's son killed in miniature train wreck
- CBF budget cuts total $1.1 million
- New IMB chief insists he has ‘no intention of being an interim’
- Trustees elect Elliff president of IMB
- D.C. convention delays vote on exec
- Partnership is mission strategy key, team leader says
- BWAid head Paul Montacute plans to retire
- D.C. Baptists to vote on new exec
- Newspaper reports Chowan-BTSR talks are off
- Houston Baptist University opens board to non-Baptists
- Passport offers free online Lenten devotions
- Funeral of slain pastor to be streamed live on Internet
- Churches gather for worship grieving slain pastor
- Soccer pulls church into community ministry
- Soccer league opens church door for family
- Young Texas pastor found dead
- Evelyn Stagg, role model for Baptist women in ministry, dies at 96
- BTSR considering merger with Chowan University
- Oeita Bottorff, SBC moderate leader, dies
- HBU trustees plan to reconsider non-Baptists on board
- SBC leadership group declines moving to biennial meetings
- SBC Executive Committee proposes funding cut
- Bill Self, prominent CBF pastor, announces retirement plans
- Mother, son confess to stealing church funds
- Baptist disaster-relief pioneer reflects on lessons learned
- Motorcycle wreck kills Baptist pastor
- Tom Elliff nominated as IMB president
- Tom Elliff nominee for new IMB president
- Foundation appeals ruling
- New editor takes helm of 'Christian Ethics Today'
- Cal Baptist athlete pleads guilty to felonies
- Border violence prompts decline in mission trips
- Virginia Baptists mark 11 years of teaching program in China
- Court rejects 'birther' challenge by former SBC officer
- Former NAMB trustee sentenced for fraud
- Gay-affirming group picks exec
- Author pens sign-language novel
- Kentucky Baptists cut jobs, freeze salaries
- Clergy abuse cases move through legal system
- Morris Ashcraft, longtime Baptist educator, dies
- Belmont adds sexual orientation to anti-discrimination policy
- Judge grants stay in Missouri Baptist Foundation case
- CBF carries on ministry in Haiti one year after quake
- ABP managing editor departs
- Tireless retirees help burned-out church rise from ashes
- CBF leaders join in CCT response to King’s jail letter
- Missouri Baptists begin search for new leader
- Seminary gives association six months to vacate property
- African-American Baptists increase Haiti aid to $1 million
- Foundation moves for amendment to or stay of Cole County ruling
- Missouri Baptist leaders call special meeting to discuss resignation
- Mo. convention cites 'immoral behavior' in exec's resignation
- 'Dateline NBC' to air story of murder of Baptist minister, wife
- County judge rules for Mo. Baptist Conv. in foundation lawsuit
- Church backing pastor jailed on molestation charges
- Church names successor to slain pastor
- Year in review: Baptist deaths in 2010
- Worth repeating: 2010 -- the year in quotes
- Accrediting agency issues warning to Criswell College
- Wayland students, staff care for platoon 6,500 miles from home
- BGCT names search committee for exec
- Pulido first to receive award named in his honor
- Search for Everett's replacement at BGCT to begin
- Robin Stoops named ABC regional minister for Nebraska
- NAMB trustee resigns over Ezell's actions
- BJC’s Walker to receive religious-freedom award
- Everett to leave BGCT for pastorate
- Church honors advocate for abuse victims
- Burmese Baptist refugees in U.S. changing Anglo churches
- Church taking festive approach to World AIDS Day
- N.H. Baptist minister, elders found guilty of failing to report abuse
- Oates institute director resigns
- N.C. mega-church pastor retiring
- Texas exec considering pastorate
- NAMB executive to become editor of Ark. Baptist paper
- Baptist editor in Oklahoma resigns
- Retired Florida Baptist newspaper editor Edgar Cooper dies
- Legendary Oklahoma pastor Warren Hultgren dies
- Retired American Baptist regional exec Dennis Norris dies
- Baptist paper's libel suit dismissed
- American Baptists offer resources translated into Karen
- British police investigating minister who confessed to abuse in U.S.
- Va. Baptists expand relationships, shrink budget
- 'Truth commission' urges change in conscientious-objector status
- Virginia Baptists decry ‘revisionist’ views of American history
- Central Seminary announces $1.7 million in gifts
- Call to allow non-Baptists on Houston Baptist U. board defeated
- Baptist Standard develops FaithVillage online community
- Member of N.C. paper’s board resigns in protest over editor’s treatment
- British Baptist minister pleads guilty to child molestation in Va.
- Mo. Baptists resist effort to drop almost nine-year litigation battle
- Church implodes buildings to make way for $115 million project
- Judge rules against Alabama Baptists in property-use dispute
- Pastor calls for church unity following arrest of associate pastor
- Va. Baptists commission pamphlet defending church-state separation
- Affinity document could guide BGAV’s future
- ABP honors founders
- Baptist newspaper editor resigns
- Sheriff's office settles lawsuit with former church member outed for blog
- Moderate Baptist group in Georgia closing doors
- Kentucky Baptist Fellowship joins ecumenical body
- Trail-blazing U.S. woman pastor to address British Baptists next year
- Photo competition aids Haiti, honors Baptist photojournalist
- California Baptists advise churches to add marriage definition to bylaws
- LifeWay background-check service finds hundreds of felonies
- SBC ethics czar Land comes out in favor of Tennessee mosque
- British Baptist minister faces sexual-battery charges
- BGCT board declines proposal to alter messenger-challenge process
- Baptist historians affirm individual conscience
- SBC president calls for 'radical reprioritization' of mission spending
- SBC Executive Committee deals with budget shortfall
- Texas Baptists Committed leader says group has moved to ‘next level’
- Central Seminary addresses needs of Burmese refugee church leaders
- In Baylor inauguration, Starr touts $100 million fundrasing initiative
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- Update: Ezell elected NAMB president on split vote
- Alabama CBF elects Ronnie Brewer new state coordinator
- Mohler says he's embarrassed by past support of women in ministry
- Ezell elected NAMB president
- Interview: Kenneth Starr on Baylor's challenges, Baptist relations
- Broadway Baptist Church informs BGCT it will 'discontinue' relationship
- NAMB presidential nominee defends church's giving record
- Baptists worldwide register protests against threatened Quran burning
- La. Baptist Convention exec challenges Ezell pick at NAMB
- Church secretary accused of stealing $68,000
- Kentucky Baptists plan alternative to Quran-burning ceremony
- Baptist Army chaplain first slain in combat since Vietnam
- Lawsuit by former National Baptist president settled, NBC leaders hear
- Al Mohler’s pastor recommended as new NAMB president
- Update: N.C. pastor facing deportation released on bond
- N.C. pastor facing deportation to have bond hearing Sept. 2 in Atlanta
- New Orleans church marks Katrina anniversary by moving beyond lament
- N.C. Hispanic pastor facing possible deportation over old crime
- Bobby Bowden says he used coaching to witness to players
- Baptist campus locks down during robbery chase
- St. Louis pastor arrested on molestation charge
- Alabama Baptist church calls wreck survival a miracle
- Mo. Baptist Foundation head Smith to lead CBF Foundation
- Baptist executives urge federal recognition of Virginia tribes
- Georgia Baptist church fire ruled arson
- Couple accused of stealing from Baptist church in North Carolina
- Former Virginia Baptist youth minister accused of sex with teen in his church
- Former Va. Baptist church worker charged with embezzlement
- British Baptist minister jailed in Virginia on sex charges
- Man pleads guilty to beating two elderly women at Ill. church
- BGCT eliminates 13 staff positions, reduces some to part-time
- Hymn Society honors three Baptists for contributions to church music
- Calif. Baptist U. coach killed, 12 runners injured in van crash
- Liberty University professor, son, killed in crash
- Alliance of Baptists urges easing of Cuba travel restrictions
- Jamaican Baptist: Faithful preaching proclaims God's Word fearlessly
- World's Baptist women discuss plight of trafficked, abused women
- Spirit transforms people, communities, creation, S. African Baptist says
- Australian pastor to world's Baptists: Become 'jubilee people'
- Science-versus-religion battle unnecessary, Baptists say
- Missions today demands local strategies, global vision, panelists assert
- Baptists discuss where Christianity embraces, offers critique of culture
- Liberation is at heart of Christian ministry, educator tells Baptists
- Global Baptist group confirms Va. Baptist executive as president
- If Jesus needed the Spirit, then so do Christians today, says U.S. pastor
- Baptists explore ethics of tourism at World Congress session in Hawaii
- World Baptists honor Lotz for human rights advocacy
- Educator says liberation central to Jesus' mission
- Christians commanded to love their Muslim neighbors, panelists insist
- North American Baptists examine series of ‘shifts’ at BWA gathering
- Preach good news, proclaim freedom, seminary president urges Baptists
- Son of church secretary accused of embezzling also charged
- BWA admits Vietnamese, Zambian, D.C. bodies, bids Coffey farewell
- Listen to the Spirit, Coffey urges Baptist World Congress
- South Africa to host continent’s first Baptist World Congress in 2015
- Rick Warren hospitalized with eye injury
- Virginia Baptist college names Clorisa Phillips new president
- Analysis: Southern Baptists face the future -- and an identity crisis
- Publisher of Ergun Caner's memoirs stands by demoted seminary head
- CBF joins national coalition of disaster-relief responders
- Baptist youth fighting child poverty one penny and one mind at a time
- Texas Hispanic Baptists celebrate century of history, look to future
- Canadian Baptist Ministries appoints first non-Anglo general secretary
- Crumpler, accepting Courage Award, notes CBF churches still funding SBC
- Missouri Baptist Convention moving Windermere case to federal court
- Baptist Seminary of Ky. relocating, reaches accreditation milestone
- After investigation into claims, Liberty University demotes Ergun Caner
- BJC supporters warned of ‘Christian nationalists,’ honor Gardner Taylor
- CBF to evaluate structure, funding in two-year study
- Historian urges Cooperative Baptists to reclaim ‘audacious identity’
- CBF commissions 16 for global service
- Southwestern Seminary leaders cut health-care benefits for retirees
- Vestal says CBF will have to recall missionaries unless funding improves
- Texas church fighting hunger in its area one child at a time
- Analysis: United in theology, Southern Baptists differ on methodology
- History society recognizes former staffer with award
- SBC motions target Alliance of Baptists, racial discrimination
- Tennessee Baptist summer missionary dies after car accident in Maine
- Southern Baptists denounce Gulf oil spill, divorce, gay-rights proposals
- Suburban Atlanta pastor Bryant Wright elected SBC president
- Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says
- SBC overwhelmingly approves 'Great Commission Resurgence' report
- WMU elects new president, urges unhindered mission
- Executive Committee elects Frank Page president in closed session
- Popular Southern Seminary pastoral-care prof Andy Lester dies
- Black Baptist groups donate $500,000 to Habitat to build houses in Haiti
- Baptist preacher gets 12 years for distributing child porn
- Baptist youth group survives crash on mission trip in Kentucky
- SBC exec Chapman criticizes task force's recommendations
- Missouri church shares Christ via Castrol with oil-change ministry
- Pastor calls on SBC to adopt zero-tolerance of racism
- Mercer taps former Southwestern prof to lead church-music institute
- CBF leader seeks to rally churches to make up missions-offering shortfall
- Former SBC president Ed Young undergoes bypass surgery
- Church secretary accused of embezzling $1.5 million
- Board distances BGCT from gay-affirming Dallas church
- Colleen Burroughs nominated as CBF moderator-elect
- Former Baptist camp director charged with abuse found dead
- Douglas Green, husband of seminary president Molly Marshall, dies
- Former pastor, NAMB trustee, accused of fleecing flock
- Interview: Raymond Bailey on 50 years of preaching
- Baptists increasingly mark Pentecost with missions, multiculturalism
- Members of college mission team survive crash in Haiti
- Tennessee flood relief turns to long-term recovery
- Baptist schools’ 2010 commencement speakers share nuggets of wisdom
- Former outsider Page nominated to lead SBC Executive Committee
- Baptist peace group counters NRA convention
- SBC membership decline continued in 2009, but baptisms increased
- MBC's goal is control or assets of remaining litigants, attorneys say
- Grand jury hears evidence in Texas church-arson cases
- American Baptist leaders support immigration reform
- Former youth pastor sentenced to 17 years for abuse
- Liberty U. to investigate alleged untruths by seminary president
- Website launched to link 'missional' Baptists in collaborative work
- Gushee to head new Mercer Center for Theology and Public Life
- Mo. appeals panel returns suit over property to lower court
- Vestal confident in future as CBF emerges from its adolescence
- Liberty U. backs seminary president amid charges of misrepresentation
- British Baptists take aim at nuclear weapons, hear about budget deficit
- Task force report urges SBC to free IMB to work in North America
- CBF leaders, partner executives discuss organization's future
- Campbellsville social-work program to award first master's degrees
- Glenn Beck, Paige Patterson to speak at Liberty University commencement
- Wake Forest divinity school to be led by UCC New Testament scholar
- American Baptist National Ministries reclaims historic name
- Prominent Florida megachurch once again pastorless
- Southern Baptist jailed in Haiti to stand trial on reduced charge
- Haitian relief projects developing as international partners meet
- Baptist Peace Fellowship marks 15th anniversary of statement on sexuality
- Missouri Baptist Convention releases newspaper from lawsuit
- Cecil Sherman 'stood on a higher hill' than his contemporaries, speaker says
- Ky. high court strikes down public funding of Baptist pharmacy school
- Hundreds gather to remember Cecil Sherman
- Soulforce Q visit to SBU described as 'gentle,' 'spiritually violent'
- Obama visit could interrupt traffic to Cecil Sherman’s funeral
- Memorial services for Cecil Sherman to be webcast
- Dan Hobbs, longtime lay leader in Baptist life, receives ABP award
- Moderate Baptist leader Cecil Sherman dies
- Founding CBF Coordinator Cecil Sherman suffers massive heart attack
- Benjamin Hooks, civil-rights icon and Baptist minister, dead at 85
- Church’s ministry weaves tapestry of love for international neighbors
- Va. church becomes second in area to give facilities to black congregation
- Church-critic blogger exposed by officials can proceed with lawsuit
- Black Baptist pastor asks SBC to repent of racism
- Former Baptist pastor gets 10 years for molestation
- Baptist adoption ministry comes full circle for Texas family
- Richmond seminary to suspend continuing-education program
- Black pastor says he doesn't plan to run for SBC president
- McKissic says it is time for Southern Baptists to elect a black president
- More than 100 churches take part in month celebrating women in pulpit
- Tim McCoy tapped as new executive for Ontario-Quebec Baptists
- Longtime Southern Seminary theology professor David Mueller dies
- Conservative Baptist activist Nancy Schaefer dead in apparent murder
- Southern Baptist Seminary professors attack new book by Brian McLaren
- Former youth minister convicted of sexual assault
- Scholars dedicate book to memory of pastor, CBF leader Philip Wise
- Baptist colleges respond to Mo. governor's proposal to cut student aid
- Baptist school coach, principal charged with sexual assault
- Longtime Arkansas BSU worker, CBF leader Tom Logue dies
- Baugh Foundation awards ABP $125,000 grant, matching challenge
- Georgia Baptists target second church with woman pastor
- BGCT asks Dallas church to clarify its stance on welcoming gays
- Widow files lawsuit in police shooting death of Baptist pastor
- BGCT takes action against church suspected of affirming gays
- Central Seminary students journey to Myanmar as pilgrims
- Va. Baptist educator Terry Maples named CBF field rep for Tennessee
- Baptist History and Heritage Society hires Bruce Gourley as new leader
- Great Commission Task Force head surprised at backlash to report
- SBC leaders criticize Beck's choice of words, but say he has a point
- BWA leaders hear thanks for quake relief, requests for more aid & prayers
- CBF seeks funds, volunteers for long-term Haiti relief
- Ala. CBF leader McDougal returns to pastorate with call to Dallas church
- Dallas church announces gay-friendly stance, endangering BGCT affiliation
- New Baptist hymnal favors singing traditions, innovations simultaneously
- New Baptist hymnal unveiled in Atlanta
- Widow shares experience on one-year anniversary of pastor's slaying
- Paul Losh, former seminary president, ABC state convention head, dies at 88
- Victims of alleged abuse come forward after Baptist pastor's arrest
- Baylor University slated to receive its largest gift in history
- Rankin welcomes GCR report's 'token commitment' to IMB funding boost
- African-American Baptist groups pledge $50 million for Haiti
- Former Baptist editor Fletcher Allen dies at 78
- Youth minister, young-adult pastor honored by CBF for their ministries
- Seminary president apologizes for calling IMB head a liar
- SBC leaders recommend 2nd reduced annual budget in a row
- Former pastor convicted of murder seeks new trial
- Task force calls for cooperation between SBC entities
- CBF prepares to enter rebuilding phase in Haiti
- Don Durham announces transition plan for leadership of CBF Foundation
- African-American Baptists collaborate to help Haiti
- Two former Baptist youth-group members suspected in church arsons
- Baptist church mourns loss of pastor's daughter
- Accomplished Baptist church musician Max Lyall dies
- CBF Coordinating Council recommends reduced budget
- Baptist reaction to Kenneth Starr choice as Baylor president runs gamut
- Former youth minister pleads guilty to abuse
- Starr receives enthusiastic -- but not unanimous -- Baylor welcome
- CBF promotes Bible listening during Lent
- Yearbook stats show SBC, ABC losing members again in 2009
- Starr affirms Baylor's Baptist heritage, plans to become Baptist
- CBF accepting applications for Haiti volunteers
- Kenneth Starr named Baylor president
- North American Baptist leaders coordinate relief efforts in Haiti
- Idaho church hopeful for release of members held in Haiti
- Baptist seminary president labels IMB mission strategy 'heresy'
- String of Texas church fires reaches 10
- Va. Baptist college president suddenly steps down, cuts staff
- Biker chaplains see the parking lot as their church
- Church fire forces closing of day care
- SBC official says he believes detained missionaries acted in good faith
- Baptist volunteers ready to serve amid massive needs in Haiti
- Q&A: Baptist Women in Ministry leader Pam Durso
- Fire that destroyed historic Texas church ruled arson
- Widow of slain Baptist pastor plans to file lawsuit
- Baptist camp hires interim to replace director charged with pedophilia
- Church overlooks budget shortfall to give entire offering to Haiti relief
- Former California Baptist exec Bill Hogue dead at 82
- Former Southwest Baptist University athlete pleads guilty to assault
- Former pastor plans to appeal murder conviction
- Reyes to head Texas Baptist social-service agency Buckner
- Texas church regroups after historic sanctuary burns
- Mother says she forgives former pastor who killed her daughter
- Former Baptist pastor sentenced in wife's murder
- British Baptist aid worker dies in Afghanistan; no foul play suspected
- Former Baptist preacher found guilty of murder
- Ex-mistress testifies in former Baptist pastor's murder trial
- Martin Marty: No easy predictions for Baptists' next 400 years
- U.S. Baptists issue urgent fundraising appeals for Haiti
- Texas church’s historic sanctuary lost to early-morning fire
- McAfee project introduces laypeople to seminary in 30-minute segments
- ABC, CBF plan multi-pronged responses to Haitian earthquake
- Passport exports youth-camping concept to Liberia
- Trial under way for former Baptist preacher charged with murder
- For a decade, U.S. Baptist volunteers have warmed Moldovan orphans
- SBC president Hunt's cancer surgery a success
- Avery Willis, giant of Southern Baptist missions, diagnosed with leukemia
- Television program profiles friendships between Muslims, Baptists
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- Grand jury clears police in shooting of Georgia Baptist pastor
- Historic downtown D.C. church, once at death’s door, now thriving
- Ga. Baptist college to require faculty assent to SBC faith statement
- Messengers ask Mo. Baptist Executive Board to drop agency lawsuits
- Ugandan pastors blast Rick Warren for opposing anti-gay law
- Day with a legend: Belmont students meet Baptist activist Will Campbell
- Lilly-funded McAfee program to help grads serving in first churches
- CBF leader says ministry-exellence training can boost clergy's image
- Former high-profile preacher admits to fathering child
- Baptist churches encouraged to invite a woman to preach in February
- Under Molly Marshall's presidency, Central Seminary sees turnaround
- WWI changed Truett’s views on war, peace and government
- Grand jury to review police shooting of Georgia pastor
- Church-based program helps the grieving survive the holidays
- Abuse charge against worship leader rocks prominent Fla. church
- Raymond Coppenger, legendary Ouachita professor, dies at 100
- Baptist state conventions feeling effects of economy
- Bucking national trend, Virginia Baptists increase 2010 budget
- For one Texas woman, love for teaching kindergartners lasts 60 years
- BGCT annual meeting draws few for business, many for evangelism
- Georgia Baptists cut ties with church led by woman pastor
- Broadway Baptist decides not to send messengers to BGCT meeting
- Research group says nation watching this year's Lottie Moon offering
- Florida church becomes sanctuary for victims of workplace violence
- Response to last year's Hurricane Ike inspires unique network's creation
- Texas Baptists provide solace in wake of Fort Hood massacre
- Additional charges filed against Baptist camp director
- Religious freedom requires Baptists to hold in tension certain principles
- ABP offers new, revamped e-mail products and social-networking feeds
- Bad marriage 'not an excuse for sin,' speaker tells seminary women
- First Baptist Church Dallas launches $130 million building project
- Former pastor in Texas, Illinois gets 50 years for sexual assault
- Jeff Zurheide, pastor in historic pulpits, loses battle with cancer
- Former Alabama pastor charged with child abuse, porn possession
- Texas Baptist philanthropist Paul Meyer dead at 81
- Southwestern Seminary adopts statement asserting male headship
- Baylor withdraws proposal to alumni association
- Missouri Baptists delegate lawsuit discretion to executive board
- Former Okla. pastor sentenced to 10 years for molestation
- ABP honors Greg Warner with lifetime achievement award
- Next two CBF assemblies to celebrate 20 years of 'Fellowship movement'
- Former SBC leader Duke McCall says NAMB is obsolete
- Judge declares Illinois pastor's killer unfit to stand trial
- Cuban Baptist leaders reportedly released from jail
- Jailed Cuban Baptists accused of illegal economic activity
- Louisiana CBF names scholarship after Maggie Lee Henson
- D.C. convention's Haggray elected pastor of historic Washington church
- Cuban Baptist leaders in custody; charges unclear
- Mo. Baptist messengers will be asked to use CP for lawsuits
- BJC directors hear update on property search, honor Walker
- Victims of brutal beating in Illinois church expected to recover
- Probe of Georgia pastor's shooting expected to take another month
- Charles Wellborn, 'Baptist Hour' preacher, writer, ethicist, dies
- Study says SBC funding plan inadequate to achieve stated goals
- Rally planned for Georgia pastor killed in botched drug sting
- BGCT leaders again recommend reduced budget for 2010
- Update: Currie resigns as Texas Baptists Committed leader
- North Carolina pastor's death believed to be self-inflicted
- Broad coalition of Baptists helps build N.C. immigrant family home
- Baptist disaster-relief groups assessing response to Georgia floods
- Joan Friesen to lead ABC of Greater Indianapolis
- Court voids $5 million judgment against Westboro Baptist Church
- Eddie Hammett will join North Carolina CBF staff
- Baylor asks alumni association to give up independence, move in-house
- Texas Baptists Committed to seek new leader
- Morris Chapman announces plans to retire from SBC Executive Committee
- Nilson Fanini, former BWA president, dies at 77
- Open mission positions may be ‘God moment,’ says SBC task force chair
- Rankin: Future of SBC missions includes focus on direct involvement
- IMB President Jerry Rankin announces retirement plans
- UPDATED: Convicted felon loses bid to regain National Baptist presidency
- Cecil Sherman receives ABP’s religious freedom award
- BGCT accesses $1 million from reserve funds
- Judge clears National Baptist Convention presidential vote
- Georgia Baptist pastor killed in botched drug sting
- Black, white Ky. churches unite in move toward reconciliation
- Former music minister sentenced for sexual abuse
- Edwin Tuller, American Baptist leader through turbulent times, dies at 95
- Singapore to be site of 2013 Baptist Youth World Conference
- Ana D’Amico, retired CBF missionary, dies after cancer struggle
- Doug Lee, who shepherded Stetson through change, dies
- Virginia youth minister faces additional charges
- Black Baptist group elects new leader
- Baptist schools ranked in U.S. News and World Report
- Youth minister found guilty of molestation
- Professor chooses church over seminary job
- Former HMB president says NAMB merger was a mistake
- Texas Baptist youth minister dies in hiking accident
- Jailed former pastor cited 'passion' for working with youth
- North Carolina convention cuts jobs
- Anderson helps homeless ‘get back on their feet’ in North Carolina
- NAMB trustees name acting interim after president resigns
- Texas pastor charged with cyber-stalking former attendee
- Cecil Sherman to receive freedom award -- again
- NAMB president, 3 associates stepping down
- Center for Congregational health elects Bill Wilson president
- Panelists offer theological foundation for immigration debate
- Pastor says God can use Christians to rebuild
- Pastor urges respect for women in ministry
- Speaker says Baptists must move beyond status quo
- Gaza pastor says slain bookstore manager was martyr
- Doctor says church has role to play in health-care reform
- Pastor says the poor depending on Baptist witness
- Sermon text: Poverty and the Baptist Legacy in the World
- Baptists challenged to overcome racial barriers
- Carter planning return trip to Gaza
- Oklahoma governor says faith sustained family in loss of child
- Funeral of girl killed in bus crash to be webcast live
- BWA moves forward with initiatives despite financial challenges
- NAMB trustees consider removing agency head
- Shreveport girl dies from injuries in church-bus crash
- Jamaican slave revolt has lessons for all, scholar says
- Scholar says Baptists neglect lessons from Virgin Mary
- Texas Baptists test-launch statewide Bible distribution plan
- Baylor Alumni Association loses links to university
- Pastor: National Guard, hospitals were prepared for church-bus crash
- Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building
- Longtime denominational worker Ernest Mosley dies
- Pastor's accused killer faces mental evaluation
- Q & A on American Baptist diversity with Samuel Chetti
- News analysis: American Baptists celebrate, struggle with diversity
- Baptist newspaper apologizes for misusing governor's signature
- Youth minister hurt in bus wreck released from hospital
- Struggle continues for teenager injured in church-bus accident
- Adrian Rogers' son resigning as IMB missionary
- Baptist camp director on leave after arrest
- Baptist peace activist Robert Broome dies
- Shreveport church focuses prayer on daughter of church staff member
- Wiley Drake wins round in legal battle challenging Obama's presidency
- Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck of church bus
- Church bus headed toward Passport overturns, killing teen
- Saddleback removes audio clip saying abuse no excuse for divorce
- News analysis: Houston, we have a Baptist problem
- Callam: BWA is communion table for world Baptist family
- Wrapup: CBF deals with budget shortfall, generational shift
- SBC Executive Committee VP steps down suddenly
- Shurden: Highest freedom is freely giving self to God
- Congressman says religious liberty demands vigilance
- Young pastors encourage CBF supporters to ‘Embrace the World’
- CBF adopts $16.1 million budget, but continues reduced spending
- Vestal says CBF a work of God's grace
- Leonard: Baptists must find new ways to express ideals
- Respond to Muslims with compassion, leaders tell Baptists
- CBF moderator urges General Assembly to celebrate movement
- Church missions network hailed in CBF commissioning service
- CBF adjusts to budget shortfall
- ABCUSA delegates reject bylaw changes
- After mere months on job, Riverside pastor resigns
- Baptist school cancels mission trip for church dismissed from SBC
- Church cancels services following flu outbreak at youth camp
- Baptist musician, academic Loftis chosen to lead hymn society
- News analysis: Generation gap creates dilemma for SBC
- SBC praises Obama's election, criticizes policies, in resolution
- SBC re-elects Johnny Hunt as president
- Younger ministers flock to Louisville seeking place in SBC
- UPDATE: SBC messengers sever ties with Texas church over gay members
- Mike Huckabee slams Obama on Iran, abortion in speech to SBC pastors
- SBC Executive Committee proposes ouster of church over homosexuality
- Baptist ministers facing sex charges appear in court
- Baptist leaders urge Congress to pass climate-change bill
- S.C. woman nominated as CBF moderator-elect
- SBC president supports resolution celebrating Obama's election
- Christopher Chapman to pastor prominent Raleigh church
- Historical records often scant on early U.S. Baptist women
- Progressive movement in South left its mark on WMU history
- Historian: Origins of ordination among Baptists tangled
- Historian: For Baptists, baptism neither means of grace nor trivial
- Missouri Baptist layman Moran takes on 'emergent church'
- At 400 years, theological distinctions define, divide Baptists
- Longtime Missouri Baptist leader Tom Nelson dead at 96
- Appeals court upholds convictions of Baptist Foundation of Arizona officials
- Pastors say hope for peace realistic, but ultimately in hands of God
- Seminary president says smaller families hurting baptism totals
- Book says SBC lacks system of preventing sexual abuse
- Baptists urged to consider risks of ‘majoritarian faith’
- Baptists’ grass-roots identity helped spread key ideas, historian contends
- Baptist Women in Ministry hires Pam Durso as executive director
- SBC spokesman disavows statements by former second VP
- African-American pastor says SBC leaders should repudiate Drake
- Pastor proposes SBC resolution celebrating Obama's election
- CBF-sponsored football clinic bridges racial divide in Louisiana community
- Drake, former SBC officer, says he's praying for Obama to die (updated)
- Broadway Baptist, under scrutiny over gays, calls Brent Beasley as pastor
- Prayers mark 10th anniversary of Ouachita plane-crash tragedy
- Former SBC officer says Tiller murder answer to prayer
- Baptists respond to cyclone in Bangladesh
- BWA, BGCT heads convey Pentecost messages
- Man accused of kidnapping grandchildren avoids prison
- Baptist Women in Ministry announces Davis Award recipients for 2009
- Officials deny report that BGCT holding up IMB funds
- 'Great Commission Resurgence' author says SBC needs overhaul
- Charles Deweese retiring as history society head
- Former rising star preacher pleads guilty to molestation
- Oklahoma governor signs Ten Commandments bill
- Former SBC president embraces message of creation care
- SBC official applauds environmental conference
- Baptist leaders dedicate ecumenical rebuild in New Orleans neighborhood
- SBC's Hunt says church is ‘king’ to bureaucracy’s ‘prince’
- BWA-supportive groups in U.S., Canada form disaster-relief group
- CBF riverboat ministry provides health care in Southeast Asia
- Mo. convention revises, attempts to revive Windermere lawsuit
- North Carolina church calls second woman pastor
- Baptist church sticking by pastor facing sex charges
- UPDATE: Mo. Supreme Court sides with Windermere over convention
- Windermere prevails; State Supreme Court denies MBC’s final appeal
- British Baptists observe 400th anniversary
- ABP directors give posthumous award to Herb Reynolds
- Former Southern Baptist pastor pleads guilty to sexual abuse
- Swine flu postpones Texas Bible drill
- 'Outed' blogger sues sheriff's, prosecutor's office
- Swine flu outbreak may prompt SBC disaster-relief effort, leader says
- Prominent Ark. music minister arrested for indecency with a minor
- SBC reports second straight membership decline
- Maya Angelou challenges Baptists to fight racism
- Carter says Baptist strife hurting evangelism
- State organizations invest in CBF Foundation micro-finance initiative
- Dying church finds way to reach community
- Mohler presidency marked by change
- Southern Seminary closing School of Church Music
- Historic African-American church focus of sex-abuse scandal
- Alliance of Baptists urges end to Cuba travel ban
- Hastey, in farewell, urges Alliance to stay true to founding vision
- Page 'concerned' about Rick Warren's comments on gay marriage
- Authorities expose blogger who has been hounding FBC Jacksonville
- Former SBC president Franklin Paschall dies
- Deadly tornadoes mar Easter weekend in Tennessee, Arkansas
- County judge dismisses second suit against Missouri Baptist institution
- Bond reduced for former Baptist pastor charged with wife's murder
- Alliance of Baptists streamlines staff
- Alabama Baptist pastor found dead in church
- Reconciliation, collaboration among Baptist Border Crossing themes
- Former Baptist pastor indicted on murder charge
- Baptist songwriter William Reynolds dies
- Baptist newspapers adapt to changing industry
- Mo. appeals court refuses to rehear convention suit against Windermere
- Philip Wise, pastor active in moderate Baptist life, dies
- Baptist church, pastor minister after shooting at N.C. nursing home
- Alabama Baptists headed to court over property dispute
- Baptism center opens in Jordan
- Baptists help the hurting in aftermath of Alabama shooting spree
- Spankings of member's child earn Baptist pastor battery conviction
- Church arson investigation brings new charges against former pastor
- Gift of $2 million to fund new chapel on Central Seminary campus
- Widow of slain pastor says she isn't angry at accused killer
- Church gathers for worship week after pastor slain
- Slain Baptist pastor hailed as hero, martyr
- Freeman: For women, proper question not 'ordination,' but 'calling'
- CBF field personnel direct training center, minister to villagers in Belize
- Police investigate money missing from Missouri Baptist nursing school
- Wedgwood pastor to preach Sunday at grieving Illinois church
- Therapeutic robot takes center stage for residents of retirement community
- Baptist pastor accused of setting fire to church
- Baptists getting older, study says
- Baptist seminary honors Glenn Hinson for half century of teaching
- Pastor gunned down in pulpit
- Lanny Hall to return to Hardin-Simmons University as president
- Baylor chair, over objections, names all-regent search committee
- Bill Leonard stepping down as dean of Wake Forest divinity school
- BWA leaders hear sobering finance report, fill justice post
- Student newspaper, Catholic prof spar over indulgences revival
- Trustees keep Liberty University gun-free
- Former Baptist deacon charged with attempted robbery of S.C. bank
- Increasingly, Baptists turning to the observance of Lent
- CBF partner groups adjust to contingency spending cuts
- BGCT officials authorize potential use of emergency reserve funds
- Baptists, liquor-store owners unite against Tennessee proposal
- CBF cuts spending by 20 percent, partner funding by 30 percent
- Baptists gather in Rome for peace conference
- SBC Executive Committee postpones vote on ouster of Broadway Baptist
- Basketball player at Baptist university suspended after altercation
- Pastor says faith sustaining family of pilot in deadly plane crash
- North Carolina CBF anticipates fifth century of Baptist movement
- Baptist pastor and wife fail to reunite with kidnapped children
- Parents to be reunited with kids kidnapped in seminary days
- Former Samford president Tom Corts dies
- David Tolliver named Missouri executive director
- Appeals court sides with Missouri Baptist conference center
- First regional New Baptist Covenant event focuses on reconciliation
- Recession forces cutbacks at Southern Baptist agencies
- Church with woman pastor expects further rebuke from Georgia Baptists
- Former youth minister pleads guilty to sending explicit emails to teen
- Website seeks to rally support for women's ordination
- Baptist foundation loses money in Madoff scandal
- Prominent Dallas pastor accepts BGCT post
- Birmingham site of first of four regional New Baptist Covenant meetings
- Former youth worker pleads guilty to molestation charge
- CBF leader writes President Obama with 'heartfelt requests'
- Ethnic missions pioneer Oscar Romo dies
- Dan Goodman, N.C. seminary professor, dies suddenly
- Baptists, Muslims say dialogue a step in right direction
- Robert Handy, Baptist historian, seminary professor, dies
- Baptist history a continuing search for the New Testament church
- Historians debate reasons for rise of Landmarkism in 19th century
- Baptist influence on history of U.S., world a mixed bag, historians say
- Baptists celebrate past with an eye to the future
- Who founded the Baptist movement– John Smyth or John the Baptist?
- Historians trace beginning of Baptist movement back 400 years
- Scholars disagree on Anabaptist, Baptist connection
- CBF worker's ministry provides refuge for teens in tough Miami neighborhood
- Renowned preacher, civil-rights leader Otis Moss retires
- Baptist World Alliance responds to Muslim letter
- Religion in presidential race tops ranking of ABP stories in 2008
- Southwestern Seminary cuts budget
- Time ranks SBC rejection of sex-offender database as 'under-reported' story
- Southern Seminary facing budget shortfall
- Baptist peace activist lobbied to end El Salvador's civil war
- WMU budget cuts include worker furlough
- Kentucky Baptist paper names editor
- Mo. appeals court hears latest round in Windermere dispute
- Study says churches with WMU stronger supporters of SBC
- Longtime Southern Baptist pastor Frank Pollard dies
- Former SBC missionary accused of embezzling IMB funds now suspected in insurance scam
- Central Seminary launches capital campaign
- Christian children's service groups unite to expand ministry reach
- Alleged church-offering thief helps nab himself with visitor card
- Shooting on Ouachita campus ends with no injuries, suspects in custody
- Proposed resolution cites racial disparities in justice system
- Va. Baptists approve scaled-back budget, hear Campolo’s appeal
- American Baptist mission agency faces budget shortfall
- Georgia Baptists reject church with woman pastor
- West Virginia Southern Baptists
support marriage amendment
- Continued investigation sheds light
on Baylor Election Day incidents
- Baptist state conventions
cope with budget woes
- North Carolina Baptists nix plan
that forwarded gifts to CBF
- Baylor officials continue investigation
of election-related campus incidents
- Texas Baptists elect Lowrie,
defer name-change proposal
- Baptist churches in Texas, California
draw gay-rights supporters’ protests
- Baptist youth minister charged with child pornography
- Baylor reports race-related
incidents on Election Day
- Former Baptist youth minister
sentenced for child molesting
- Missouri Baptist convention again
elects ‘Save Our Convention’ slate
- Faculty, students, alumni want voice in Baylor presidential search
- Texas pastor warns against conservative 'takeover' of BGCT
- Newly deployed soldiers benefit from chaplain's experience in Iraq
- Georgia Baptist pastor resigns after another brush with law
- Marse Grant, longtime N.C. editor, dies at 88
- SBC seminary professor labels birth control a ‘sin’
- Although Bible says it, Baptists haven’t settled it, historian says
- Baptism remains Baptists’ symbol, but ‘problems’ must be answered
- CBF field personnel minister among Middle Eastern group
- Everett sermon at Southwestern may be sign of thaw in relations
- N.Y. Baptist group says to defrock pastor facing child-porn charge
- SBU administrator named as Oklahoma Baptist president
- Book says Southern Baptist women stronger than confession suggests
- CBF partners recall 9/11 with community service
- Men’s recovery home possible through CBF grant in Illinois
- American Baptist history archives reunited at Mercer University
- Veteran journalist Bob Allen tapped as ABP senior writer
- Landrum Leavell, longtime seminary president, dies
- Cecil Sherman, in hospital, gets ABP freedom award
- Wyatts’ ministry to internationals broadens with move to Ottawa
- Bilingual resources engage Korean preschoolers, children in missions
- Unique international tour inspires students to pursue U.N. goals
- Former BWA president David Wong dies at 97
- IMB retooling to focus agency on local-church mission work
- ‘Red-letter’ Christians can transcend partisan politics, Campolo insists
- Global Women founds endowment, sets priorities at board meeting
- Houston school suffers from Ike; Baptists respond in Texas, La.
- As Ike disaster draws focus, Caribbean relief continues
- Relief, recovery efforts begin after Ike ravages Texas coast
- David Wilkinson to become ABP’s executive director
- Dellanna O’Brien, former
WMU head, dies at 75
- NAMB sells former RTVC building to energy company
- Baptists continue Gustav relief with wary eyes on Hanna, Ike
- Fuller Seminary professor David Scholer dies at 70
- Baptists active in wake
of Hurricane Gustav
- ABP Executive Editor Greg Warner to step down, citing health reasons
- Family vacation centers on missions and serving
- Former IMB leader takes Kansas City DOM post
- Garland named interim president at Baylor
- Former Texas church planter files libel suit against BGCT, others
- C.W. Brister, longtime Southwestern pastoral-care professor, dies at 82
- Truett-McConnell College calls Caner as president
- Man shoots Ark. Democratic chairman, menaces Baptist Building
- American Baptist leaders organize first-ever Burmese Baptist meeting
- Amid Criswell College turmoil, accrediting probation lifted
- Johnson resigns from Criswell after public spat with Jeffress
- CBF missions blitz helps poverty-stricken Ark. county
- Riverside Church taps Braxton, former Wake prof, as new pastor
- BWA births division for justice; scholars spotlight ecology, diversity
- Falling revenue causes
LifeWay to cut staff
- CBF, Global Women agree to three-year partnership
- Mo. church’s $2.2 million bequest largest in Central Seminary history
- Cecil Sherman diagnosed
with acute myeloid leukemia
- BWA Prague meeting ushers in new structure, Muslim response
- ABC-affiliated Ottawa University names banker, alum new president
- CBF ministry to internationals takes place at home, abroad
- BWA meeting in Prague begins with prayer, praise
- Pastors' biggest challenges differ by region, BWA speakers say
- Baylor President John Lilley removed for failure to 'unite Baylor family'
- New ABP website uses collaboration to offer more resources, interaction
- Groups ask federal appeals court to halt Kentucky's funding of Baptist agency
- Early retirement likely for embattled Nashville pastor
- ABC-USA proposes changes to focus on mission, churches
- Daniel Vestal counters BP column that said CBF not ‘truly Christian’
- Carson-Newman names Baylor Provost Randall O’Brien president
- Baptist student missionary killed in Peru bus accident
- Michael Clyburn assumes helm at Alderson-Broaddus College
- Most evangelicals, Baptists tolerant, even universalist, survey suggests
- Defending minorities is very Baptist, Wright-Riggins tells BJC banquet
- Defending minorities is very Baptist, Wright-Riggins tells BJC banquet
- Young CBFers, responding to Sherman, call for end to bitter anti-SBC rhetoric
- OBU trustees name social science school for longtime supporter
- Richmond seminary names Israel Galindo as dean
- Modern slavery global scourge, speakers tell CBF supporters
- BWIM celebrates 25 years of women in ministry
- Young CBF supporters mark 9/11 with mission projects
- ‘Missional engagement’ should have priority, say respondents
- CBF expands poverty commitment; launches process for future direction
- Civil-rights leader garners
Whitsitt Courage Award
- Civil-rights struggle ongoing, journalists at ABP event say
- CBF General Assembly begins with historic commissioning service
- Mission projects precede CBF General Assembly in Memphis
- Women’s wrestling brings sporting equity to Missouri Baptist school
- Alma Hunt, longtime Baptist missions advocate, dead at 98
- Troubled Texas WMU seeks healing with interim director
- SBC resolution could shrink church membership rolls further
- Texas church targeted for ouster from SBC over homosexuality
- Radical Islam among 4 apocalyptic forces threatening America, SBC’s Land says
- SBC officials reject idea of sex-offender database
- SBC business items include bids to re-join BWA, oust churches
- God uses broken vessels, pastors are assured
- Establishment candidate Johnny Hunt wins SBC presidency on 1st ballot
- Keynote speaker Lauran Bethell before gathered Fellowship Baptists
- Fellowship Baptists participate in a time of prayer and discernment
- CBF General Assembly devotes prayer time to discerning way
- Faith & Culture
- Online ministry offers diverse prayer resources
- Fulfilling the Great Commission
- Effective global missions demands multicultural partnerships
- Baptist agencies don't recruit nationals for U.S. missionary service
- Ministry to new immigrants presents challenges, opportunities
- Missionaries heading from East to West
- Pastor's anti-gambling prayer criticized as political
- Study: 2/3 of Americans support renting school buildings to churches
- Baptist pastor opposes N.C. gay-marriage ban
- SBC agency opposes cockfighting
- Former pastor's wife running for lieutenant governor
- Mohler slams stem-cell study
- Pujols' foundation committed to St. Louis area
- WMU leads in advocating for children victimized by trafficking
- Human trafficking: 21st century slavery
- MLK holiday a day of service for church
- Clergy say evolution, faith can co-exist
- Baptist sexuality conference program released
- Can Sunday School be saved?
- Online Sunday school class offers 'easy-access Bible study'
- Documentary claims age-graded Sunday school harms families
- Sunday school an evolving institution
- Women's Bible commentary promotes 'complementarian' roles for sexes
- Scholar says Christmas as 'celebration of domesticity' a modern invention
- Mohler defends Virgin Birth
- Nativity scene dispute puts focus on Texas town
- School district settles suit with Tennessee ACLU
- Churches balance reality, reverence when Christmas falls on Sunday
- Church kicked out of association appeals for funds
- 'Occupy' movement comes to church
- Scholars say evangelicals tinkering with the Trinity
- Baylor professor fighting dismissal charges
- Divinity students aim to heal 'unseen war wounds'
- Wounded Warriors: Returning veterans, families struggle to adjust
- Trafficking: False promises, desperation lure woman
- Baptist church takes stand for gay marriage
- Baylor course title sparks controversy
- Gay-rights group accuses Baptists of hypocrisy
- Pastor writes Bible study for Harry Potter movies
- Baptist cooperation developed slowly but took root deeply
- Crossing boundaries in ministry poses opportunities, challenges
- Does Calvinism extol God's glory or make him a moral monster?
- Mohler says Penn State scandal holds lesson for Southern Baptists
- SBC leader compares personhood movement to abolition
- Baptist school expels transgender student
- Book details rise of independent churches
- Texas pastors weigh in on Rob Bell controversy
- Mayor proclaims day of service in memory of Baptist crash victim
- Social justice apart from the church not 'kingdom work,' author says
- Couponing helps family, leads to ministry opportunities
- Church cancels services, packs meals for hungry children
- Civil War changed Americans' view of Providence, historian says
- How to conduct a basic church security survey
- Churches advised to begin by assessing risks
- Safe and secure from all alarm
- Study: Bible readers oppose gender-inclusive translations
- Alabama Baptists remain on sidelines of immigration debate
- SBC leader says gay marriage not 'live and let live'
- Adam and Eve back in the news
- Answering the call when nobody calls
- Should ministers get second chances?
- Matching church and clergy methods differ by denomination
- To beckon Baby Boomers, adopt multifaceted ministry approaches
- Baptist leader says executing murderers is pro-life
- Professors denounce 'Christian Zionism'
- Belief in active God & free market closely linked, survey reveals
- Clergy seek clemency for death-row inmate
- Passport begins week of online 9/11 reflections
- One woman's challenge to transition to new life as 'one'
- Single adults represent tremendous mission field
- Singles ministry tough, but vital
- Single but not alone
- CBF-sponsored sexuality conference taking shape
- Debate over Adam and Eve continues
- Faith & work
- Churches offer 'Soul Food,' encouragement to the unemployed
- Beyond immediate ministry, Christians called to address social inequities
- Opinion: Two lies for Labor Day
- Bible translation pioneer dies
- Worship resources offered for 9/11 anniversary
- Job Corps injects hope into discouraged hearts
- LifeWorks joins pieces for women in mountains
- New monastics practice Jesus' hospitality and find stability
- New Bible translation seeks common ground
- Equipping the equippers
- Traditional divinity program aids ministry in nontraditional contexts
- Seminaries adapt to changing religious landscape
- New president believes in strong role for women's college
- Pastor doesn't want to perform weddings until all can wed
- Church hosts alternative to Perry prayer rally
- 'Foster care saved my life,' says resident
- Fostering isn't for everyone, but everyone can play a part
- Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God's plan
- Not called to foster? Here are other ways to help
- Common myths about foster care
- Early in children's services, Baptists try to keep pace with change
- Advocates seek foster parents in churches
- Judge vacates $4.75 million judgment against church
- After 59 years, Bible teacher has no plans to move beyond first grade
- Layman's vision enables church to provide ministerial internship
- Unsung Heroes
- Custodian keeps church neat and clean for four decades
- Computer system works behind the scenes to help churches meet needs
- Book asks 'Is God a Christian?'
- Laughter makes worlds overlap says comic pastor
- Patriotism, spiritual ties may pull Christians in opposite directions
- One Nation Under God
- Does the Star-Spangled Banner belong in the church sanctuary?
- Civil religion: Lowest common denominator or common ground?
- Baptists should understand, teach church-state separation
- Summit offers ideas, networking to fight poverty
- White woman's passion leads to black history museum
- Is marriage a 'dying' institution?
- Study examines what families want from their church
- Ministry seeks to make marriages divorce-proof
- Brueggemann points to a food fight in Scripture
- Groups call on SBC to apologize for treatment of gays
- Opinion opens doors to guns in Va. churches, but some pastors are wary
- BWA preparing for UN Earth Summit in 2012
- Civil War, Civil Rights
- CBF, Mercer collaborate to offer conference on sexuality in 2012
- Christians can eliminate widespread hunger, advocates insist
- Redemptive aid demands ‘kingdom collaboration,’ Buckner chief says
- Rural church converts child care space to senior center
- Panel finds defining 'Baptist university' not a simple task
- Unlikely allies weave myth of Christian America, historian says
- Judge dismisses most of suit challenging Tennessee mosque
- Wellness responsibility of both minister and church
- Ministry rebuilds damaged ministries
- 10 practices for ministerial health
- Healthy ministers, healthy churches
- 10 Ways to help overcome religious illiteracy
- Louisiana Baptists oppose bullying bill
- Multisite fans view approach as good stewardship
- Church start or church satellite? Decision can be difficult
- Multisite ministry by any other name …
- Hybrid multisite model uses multiple approaches
- Multisite multiplication
- Researchers study return on short-term missions
- Tenn. ACLU accuses school district of promoting Christianity
- Royal wedding holds lessons about church-state separation, experts say
- Translators’ goal: Make the message clear and plain
- After 400 years, does King James still rule?
- King James-only adherents apply inerrancy to 1611 Bible translation
- Whose ‘majesty’ were the KJV translators exalting?
- Christianity a ‘translated religion’--into Living Word and written word
- Volunteer service bridges the generation gap
- Common values, mission draw Christians together across lines of age
- Relationship-building vital to bridging gulf between generations at church
- Ministering together the first step toward intergenerational community
- Churches intentionally seek to bridge the generation gap
- American Baptists denounce Quran burning
- Easter: Did you ever wonder …?
- Christians called to ‘faithful presence,’ not conquest, Willimon says
- Churches need social networking policies
- Couple fights 'choking game' tragedy
- Sidebar: Website warns of risky behaviors promoted on Internet
- Baptist ethicist says US role in Libya fails 'just war' test
- Small groups 'catapult' members into larger life of the church and world
- Small groups crucial, but not cure-all
- Sanctity of life bigger than one issue, Gushee says
- Poverty simulations have long history
- Poverty simulation begs middle class questions
- Debriefing a poverty simulation
- Some foreign aid helps, other kinds do more harm than good, experts assert
- Reciprocity or dependency?
- Fighting hunger makes economic and political sense, Christian activist says
- Austin pastor notes value of Christian calendar for spiritual formation
- Writer explores array of ancient spiritual practices for believers today
- Unfamiliar practices may bring unexpected benefits to churches
- Spiritual preparation for Easter not just a 'Catholic thing'
- What’s the skinny on Lent?
- Cowboy churches follow the hoofprints, going where cowboys gather
- Texas legislature may cut all funds for professional prison chaplains
- World Vision wins on 'Jeopardy!'
- Gospel writers harmonize; they don’t sing the melody of Jesus in unison
- Church membership trends unchanged
- Opinion: Looking to find your center of creativity? Unplug
- For relationships, technology a two-edged sword, experts insist
- Teen website changes lives through laughs and relationship
- Recognize children’s digital proficiency, but be alert to dangers
- Churches view social networking as ministry tool
- Researcher finds civil rights songs on flip side of gospel records
- Ten Commandments new addition to church property
- What makes ministry to older adults more effective?
- Challenge for churches: How to care for caregivers
- No single size or shape fits ministry to all older adults
- How senior are senior adults?
- School board votes to keep graduation at Southern Baptist church
- Churches turning to Facebook, LifeWay Research says
- Westboro spokeswoman: Message, not messenger, the issue
- Church gives away new home
- Mentoring offers ministry students an important support system
- Life coaching makes its way into churches
- Academy for Spiritual Formation blends discipline, community
- Westboro Baptist Church to make unwelcome appearance at funerals
- Biologist says Baptist leader lets theology trump science
- Baptist scholar in thick of iPhone app flap
- Poll: U.S. personal religiosity stable, influence declines
- Survey says many skip religious aspect of Christmas
- Fallout continues over departure of gay soccer coach
- Study says recession catching up to churches
- Suggested reading for those who grieve at the holidays
- Joy to the World? Churches deal with holiday grief
- Joy to the World: Joy, happiness not synonymous
- How to help those who grieve at the holidays
- Survey of pastors: Bush, Palin Christians; Obama, Oprah, Beck not
- Christian charity warns about danger of holiday debt
- Choose Wisely: Fair-trade movement has Christian roots
- Choose Wisely: Dave Ramsey on moral decision-making
- Choose Wisely: Experts say financial decisions have moral implications
- Apostolic movements called key to church’s future, church planter says
- Faith leaders support including contraception in health reform
- 'Fireproof' actor Kirk Cameron shares testimony at Baptist college
- Harry Potter presents contemporary gospel narrative, professor says
- Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood unimpressed by new NIV
- Os Guinness: Civility needed in global public square
- Love of God communicated best in multi-ethnic churches, pastor insists
- Retired missionary's 'ministry of trash' grows out of fitness habit
- Mohler's rejection of evolution criticized for harming witness
- Award-winning Christian musician advocate for adoption
- Baptist groups partner to bring health care to Mexican village
- ‘Unchurched’ studies seek to understand why people leave
- Study finds large churches can do better at retaining members
- Why do people leave churches?
- Author, pastor: Old models of church don’t work anymore
- Unusual prayer meeting proves ministry catalyst for N.C. church
- Who's in Charge? Wide diversity in church governance among Baptists
- Can a church be congregational in polity and have elders?
- Governing multi-site churches like franchising a business
- Texas Baptist columnists disagree about yoga
- Leader: Rise of Hispanic evangelicals influencing immigration debate
- SBC leader's critique of yoga sparks controversy among Christians
- Moderate Baptists uneasy about evangelical baggage
- Who are evangelicals?
- Definitions of 'evangelical' vary
- Congregations struggle to become diverse, retain diversity
- Mohler criticizes Nobel selection of in-vitro-fertilization inventor
- Church administrators to focus on risk management
- Rural Churches: Pastors say rural churches measure growth differently
- Rural Churches: Some see their calling as providing a minister-training lab
- Rural Churches: Dwindling population base presents challenges
- Rural Churches: Strong sense of community gives churches new life
- Chaplain: Executed woman was true to faith until end
- Texas religious leaders denounce Islamic-bias-in-textbooks resolution
- Fear not, Jesus said -- but some Christians still do
- Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque
- Living in the midst of fear challenging but possible, church leaders insist
- Baptists, other local religious leaders protest planned Quran burning
- Former Va. Baptist chaplain leads fight to save woman on death row
- School Daze: Tradition of U.S. Baptist higher education a lengthy one
- School Daze: Christian colleges not spared from recession’s impact
- School Daze: Baptist higher education in state of flux
- Interfaith leaders defend ‘mosque’ project; co-leader says move off table
- Federal judge refuses to block Georgia ban on guns in church
- Church-state group discourages using public land for 'Ground Zero mosque'
- Judge throws out Missouri funeral protest law
- Southern Baptist leader says Obama wrong about Ground Zero mosque
- Study says clergy neglecting self-care
- Baptist teenagers among protesters arrested at school board's meeting
- Faith and Fitness: Divinity student joins worship, fitness discipline
- Faith and Fitness: Exercise good until it becomes a false god
- Faith and Fitness: Clinic preaches the gospel of fitness
- Progressive North Carolina church welcomes far-right protest group
- 'PandaMonium' VBS theme draws complaints because of word's genesis
- Nebraska drops flag-mutilation charge against Westboro protester
- Evangelicals pray for those economically affected by Gulf oil spill
- Planting churches that take root requires the right processes, people
- Church Planting: How should church starters measure success?
- Church Planting: Missional, emergent movements place premium on planting
- Church Planting: Need for funding common denominator in church starts
- God hates flags? Judge bars arrest of Westboro flag protester
- Evangelicals better than mainliners at retaining youth, researcher says
- Louisiana governor signs guns-in-church bill into law
- '20/20' to air update on pastor convicted of murder
- Jim Wallis invitation stirs controversy for Christian music festival
- Liberty and Justice: Church-state lines can blur when disasters strike
- Liberty and Justice: What is the future of U.S. religious liberty?
- Liberty and Justice: Churches, ministries and employment law
- Liberty and Justice: When church-state separation and social justice conflict
- Seminary prof says Gulf oil spill could be wakeup call for evangelicals
- CBF workshop explores church’s response to homosexuality
- Bellevue pastor defends disqualifying lesbian coach's team
- Baptists view growing Hispanic population as opportunity
- Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas to mark centennial
- Pastor joins growing numbers of blacks at Hispanic Baptist school
- Cinco de Mayo gives Texas churches opportunity to serve, learn
- Church team cycles across Missouri for kids' smiles
- Louisiana Senate panel shelves guns-in-church bill
- Conn. school board won't appeal ban on graduations in church building
- Seasons: Death in a minister's family means transitions in ministry, identity
- Seasons: church and founding pastor either grow together or somebody moves on
- Seasons: Churches adapt to change by planting multiple campuses
- Congregation radically adapts model from cowboy to skater outreach
- Seasons: Student ministers face challenges as age separates them from youth
- 'Lazarus' Harley helps Missouri ministry introduce bikers to Christ
- Revival of outdoor baptismal services connects churches to communities
- In new book, Baptist prof draws on U2's music to call for Christian unity
- Texas board gives final approval to controversial textbook standards
- Church should be place of acceptance for people with special needs
- Barriers of attitude block people with disabilities from full inclusion in churches
- Opinion: Anybody can be a friend to the disabled
- Welcoming people with special needs can mean spiritual, numerical growth
- Seminaries not preparing pastors to minister to disabled, some assert
- Murder in pulpit spurs college to host safety workshop for churches
- Louisiana House passes bill allowing guns in church
- Religious leaders speak out against new Texas textbook standards
- Gregory, Crouch say white churches have a lot to learn from black ones
- Grand Ole Opry moving to Baptist church
- Biomedical ethics in a brave, new world
- Bioethics: Baptist hospital performs innovative cancer treatment
- Flooded hotel donates perishable food to Baptists for disaster relief
- Marty: Church-state separation doesn’t mean opposing religion
- Baptist scholars view Noah's Ark discovery claims with skepticism
- Va. governor lifts ban on police chaplains’ sectarian prayers
- Former Southwest Baptist U. football player sentenced for 2006 attack
- In new book, Southern Baptist leader urges Christians to go green for God
- Contraception, abstinence not contradictory messages, study says
- Study: Most 'Millennials' don't pray, read Bible or attend church
- Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism
- What happens when Baptists cannot agree about baptism?
- Mohler equates 'seductive' post-modern preaching, liberalism
- Author describes what having an autistic child taught her about God
- Barna: Four in 10 'unchurched' have been hurt by churches
- Culture of Debt: Churches can help poor avoid predatory-lending trap
- Turning a culture of debt into a culture of thrift
- Reading the Bible through the lens of poverty affects interpretation
- Missiologist: Christians in developing world interpret Bible differently
- Study links religion to racial prejudice
- Documentary makers warn viewers to ‘Beware of Christians’
- 'Internet Monk' Michael Spencer, acclaimed religion blogger, dead at 53
- Congregational-health expert terms churches 'in crisis'
- Anne Graham Lotz leads Missourians in prayer over state's $500M shortfall
- Legal gay marriage pushes sexuality to forefront for churches
- Expert: Churches might come out of recession with clearer fiscal focus
- A Time to Laugh: Was Jesus a jokester?
- A Time to Laugh: Baptist humorist says to paint a picture with words
- A Time to Laugh: Humor an important spiritual practice, theologian says
- A Time to Laugh: Grieving comic says faith, hope and laughter abide
- A Time to Laugh: What is the role of laughter for Christians?
- Wallis says Glenn Beck has helped advance social justice
- A Time to Laugh: The late Grady Nutt was a pioneer of Christian comedy
- A Time to Laugh: When laughter ceases to be the best medicine
- Survey says pastors value, benefit from seminary degrees
- Pastors to go barefoot on Easter to raise awareness about shoelessness
- Mercer program teaches church members to deliver end-of-life care
- Most church websites ineffective, technology firm’s study finds
- Baptists decry Texas board’s votes on textbook standards
- Google Thyself: Christian ethics and social networking
- Trinity? There’s an app for that.
- ABCUSA leader says denominations must retool for 21st century
- Jim Wallis urges Christians to turn off Glenn Beck
- Study says blogs a growing but largely untapped influence on religion
- Tenn. school board settles lawsuit over First Amendment violations
- A Time to Die: Church plants and re-plants key to continued witness
- A Time to Die: Church renewal depends on leadership, Baucom says
- A Time to Die: Can Baptists learn from Anglican revitalization?
- A Time to Die: When churches die, can they live again?
- A Time to Die: How do -- and should -- churches die?
- College student goes from wariness to embrace of elder-care ministry
- Ministers go online to meet spouses
- New abolitionists shine light on domestic human trafficking
- Building Green: What can I do?
- Building Green: Experts give advice on greening church facilities
- American Baptists seeking to raise $1 million for Haiti relief
- Billy Graham tops poll of most influential living preachers
- Baptist prof fears Haiti arrests will set back adoption movement
- Forgive Us: Christians struggle with radical forgiveness
- Forgive Us: Is forgiveness always appropriate for Christians?
- Seminar equips clergy, laypeople to talk about faith, science
- Church Super Bowl parties OK as long as NFL rules followed, experts say
- UCC spokesman says decision to air Tebow Super Bowl ad 'arbitrary'
- MLK Day celebration marks 50th anniversary of sit-in movement
- God and the Gridiron: Coaches can shape players' faith
- God and the Gridiron: Sports camps help churches reach out
- God and the Gridiron: Why are U.S. sports so Christianity-friendly?
- Religious Right leader defends Robertson's Haiti comment
- Young preachers flock to Louisville for preaching festival
- Study says larger churches hit harder by economy
- Hollywood's 'The Book of Eli' casts Bible, Christian character as central
- Tennessee school district agrees to stop handing out Bibles
- Report tallies more than 1,200 crimes involving U.S. churches in 2009
- Blessed are the Persecuted: Defining, and responding to, persecution
- Blessed are the Persecuted: Where persecution is real, it’s intense
- Blessed are the Persecuted: SBC resolutions noting persecution
- Chris Tomlin wants young worshipers to give ‘glory to God in the highest’
- For five decades, Houston couple has brightened children’s Christmas
- Christmas Around the World: Global Baptists celebrate the holiday
- N.C. judge strikes down law banning sex offenders from church
- Oklahoma company debuts funds that keep faith with Christian investors
- National race track chaplaincy group to relocate to Kentucky
- Texas cowboy pastor braving elements, hunger to focus on needy
- Christians need 'a theology of power,' according to prominent sociologist
- Mo. Baptist couple sells dream house to live God-given dream
- Texas Baptist church helps foster teens’ transition to adulthood
- British Baptist Nativity effort invites public to 'Get in the Picture'
- Conservative Christians push back at calls to curb greenhouse emissions
- Restorative Justice: Programs focus on healing, not just punishment
- Restorative Justice: Relationship at heart of philosophy
- Restorative Justice: Ministry to inmates' families key to rehabilitation
- Baptist college offers model for transforming its neighborhood
- Memphis churches draw attention for 10th World AIDS Day observance
- Ending hunger statewide by 2015 is subject of Baylor summit
- Advocate believes Christian-run prison would be constitutional
- LifeWay's 'Bible Navigator X' reaches out to video gamers
- ACLU sues Tenn. school district for repeatedly promoting religion
- New domestic-poverty stats a wake-up call, Baptist ethicists say
- In Dallas, Justice Revival calls churches to unify and serve
- Social networking enables Va. church to collect toys for Ga. flood victims
- Federal court says Christian-themed license plates unconstitutional
- Great Awakening: Is a new one taking place outside the West?
- Great Awakening: Texans celebrate Spirit's movement among Iranians
- Great Awakening: Bible guides revival of evangelical activism, Wallis says
- Federal judge: N.C. county council's sectarian prayers unconstitutional
- Don't blame Islam for Fort Hood killings, Baptist leader says
- Mural enriches children’s ministry, helps heal wounds for Texas church
- Merritt, Gushee: On creation care, evangelicals must move toward 'we'
- The Shack author, at Gardner-Webb, says book’s success is ‘God thing’
- International Adoption: Celebrating an adopted child's cultural heritage
- International Adoption: Grandparents are an important part of the picture
- International Adoption: Family finds love in Korea -- three times
- International Adoption: Long journey from Kazakhstan orphanage to Baylor
- International Adoption: Texas family listens to God, adopts Ethiopian child
- Thousands of acts of kindness memorialize church-bus-crash victim
- International Adoption: It's more than just a hot Hollywood trend
- Town raises money to help families of church-beating victims
- Breckenridge residents seek to bring warmth to orphans in Eastern Europe
- Fear Not: Ethicists say blessed is he who thinks before forwarding
- Fear Not: What does virtual rumor-mongering say about Christians?
- 'Maggie Lee for Good' day surpasses goal of 13,000 good deeds
- Georgia school board upholds policy banning Bible banners
- Father of dead Marine to appeal decision favoring Phelps protesters
- Ban on religious signs at football games roils Georgia community
- Faithful Stewards: ‘Generosity’ as a concept over ‘stewardship?’
- Faithful Stewards: Can we reclaim the corporate virtue of thrift?
- Faithful Stewards: Debt keeps Christians from reaching potential
- Cheerleaders' Bible banners raise community controversy
- Barna survey: Women pastors gaining ground in United States
- 'Maggie Lee for Good' project honors memory of girl killed in bus crash
- Non-denominational, Baptist churches dominate list of largest
- Baptist college campuses form groups attacking domestic hunger directly
- George Barna, Hispanic evangelicals weigh in on health-care reform
- Southern Baptists, other conservative Christians urge Iran action
- Healing the Sick: Ethicists view health care as a basic right
- Healing the Sick: Spiritual component key part of parish nursing
- Healing the Sick: Baylor profs propose alternative reform model
- Healing the Sick: Faith-based providers crucial to health reform
- Healing the Sick: Religious groups fighting to prevent reform debacle
- Florida principal, athletic director not guilty of contempt of court
- Theologian-scientist says there are pathways between two disciplines
- Most religiously conservative states have highest teen birth rates
- Only 1 in 3 churches spiritually 'vital,' study says
- Baylor study: Clergy sexual misconduct with adults widespread
- Samford basketball player found dead in dorm room
- Who are the hungry? Putting a face to people in need
- Heeding the call: Baptist college grad launches development non-profit
- Heeding the call: Churches taking ownership of Great Commission
- Heeding the call: Missional church reaches out through health care
- Heeding the call: Historic church finds new energy in missions commitment
- Episcopal bishop defends 'heresy' remarks
- Gaddy trades barbs with Jindal over taxpayer-funded flights to churches
- Accused Baptist swindler Allen Stanford sued for gambling debt
- Lesbian fired by Baptist agency to get day in court
- Pastor announces hunger strike for immigration reform
- Baptist colleges, students, families struggle, cope with financial crisis
- New NIV translation due out in 2011
- Judge: Kentucky can't depend, legally, on God for homeland security
- Blessing Schools: Initiative seeks to link local churches, schools
- Blessing Schools: Baptist mentors seek to change children's lives
- Blessing Schools: Project educates city about student needs
- Blessing Schools: Baptist college's literacy program hopes to spread
- Blessing Schools: Churches work with public schools to bless, improve
- Blessing Schools: Program makes dreams a reality for poor Texas kids
- Texas governor signs landmark human-trafficking legislation
- Lutherans open door to gay clergy, agree to disagree on sexuality
- Former pastor, sons charged with Ponzi scheme
- John Piper says possible tornado a warning to Lutherans
- Samford cancels event featuring Rick Pitino
- Musical choice reveals congregation’s theological position
- Faith that sings: Hymns make theology portable
- BWA presentation on church and gays reveals differing regional approaches
- LifeWay says 1 in 8 church background checks finds record
- Victim of church-bus crash takes center stage at memorial service
- Former Southern Baptist pastor sentenced for fraud, tax evasion
- Interfaith Alliance head calls for new ground rules in marriage debate
- Christian coach says Muslim principal fired him over religion
- Looking for leaders: Training next generation requires new models
- Religious leaders back common ground on abortion
- Anti-gay church says God hates the world
- Researcher says hypocrisy not biggest obstacle to evangelism
- Jimmy Carter says religion used to subjugate women
- Road to Recovery: Set Free Church breaks the chains of addiction
- Road to Recovery: Churches help with overcoming addictions
- Road to Recovery: The 12 Steps
- Episcopal presiding bishop terms individualistic salvation 'heresy'
- Broadway Baptist Church youth choir detours through Nashville
- On church-state issues, Obama brings new perspective, slow policy change
- Baptist views of church-state separation: Q & A with Brent Walker
- NAACP head tells black Baptists civil-rights struggle not over
- Separation of church and state from the underside
- Ministry connects needs, would-be wasted commercial products
- Ministers seek investigation into police shootings
- New Hampshire latest state to legalize same-sex marriage
- Some churches help Christians view culture through spiritual lenses
- Baptist layman promotes 'Say Something Nice Sunday'
- What fad would Jesus follow?
- Ethicists mark 75th anniversary of German 'Confessing' movement
- Faith-based groups push for health-care reform
- Sanctuary for challenged children, parents
- Through open adoption, extended family grows by leaps and bounds
- Israel Houghton believes in the ‘Power of One’
- Researcher: Young evangelicals shun 'conservative' label, embrace 'justice'
- Obama adviser says creation-care movement needs pastors
- Baptist Okla. governor must decide whether to OK Decalogue monument
- Conservatives divided over Miss California USA controversy
- Torture opponent welcomes comments by SBC leader
- Churches flock to social networking sites
- Wide-open freedom of the Web offers challenges and ministry opportunities
- Study: Ranks of religiously unaffiliated remain open to faith
- Speakers say response to hunger validates gospel
- Young evangelicals call for end to nuclear weapons
- Church budget-cutting: Prudent planning or excessive anxiety?
- Church offers ‘Soul Food’ in town hit hard by recession
- Baptist groups feel recession’s pinch
- LifeWay study: Protestant pastors divided on global warming
- Lecturer says Bible shaped MLK's 'beloved community'
- Lecturer cites food-related themes in Jesus' ethical teaching
- Rick Warren says he did not campaign for Proposition 8
- Vermont first state to approve gay marriage legislatively
- Opinion: God wrote a book -- How the Bible was made
- Train up a child: It takes parents and churches working together
- For the Bible tells me so
- Author seeks to offer ‘eyewitness’ account of Christ’s life
- Iowa Supreme Court says state cannot deny marriage to gays
- Church-state group opposes state funds going to Baptist school
- Texas textbook decisions on science standards have national implications
- Southern Baptist activist organizes confab on church and environment
- Mercer conference focuses on ending modern slavery
- Families: Redeeming the time
- Family missions involvement raises children’s awareness
- Judge: Controversial home-school ruling hinged on mother's church
- Christian comic, former SNL star, labels Obama a communist
- Martial-arts seminar at Baptist school leads kung-fu master to Christ
- Bill to permit guns in churches revived in wake of pastor's shooting
- Longtime Baptist professor: Pastors must integrate science, faith
- Va. pastor fights depression with medical, psychological treatment
- Dallas church offers lessons learned from ministry to mentally ill people
- Ministers often need help caring for their own mental health
- Through a glass darkly: Churches respond to mental illness
- School sued for censoring religious message
- Mercer conference calls Christians to 'creation care'
- Study: Churchgoers like porn, but don't buy it on the Sabbath
- Senate scandal divides state Democrats over race
- Arkansas guns-in-church bill dies in state Senate
- Parachurch groups not yet feeling economy's pinch, survey says
- Yearbook notes membership declines for Catholics, Southern Baptists
- St. Louis church committed to its urban neighborhood for good, for God
- North Carolina church sets example with eco-friendly new building
- Upsurge of urban ‘creative class’ poses challenges to evangelicals
- Churches respond to challenge of new urban 'creative class'
- Survey: Crisis has some churches slashing budgets, more worried
- Lutheran task force proposes process to allow gay relationships for clergy
- FCC to churches: Don't throw out your wireless mics -- yet
- Contact with global partners gave church expanded vision
- Service central to becoming an externally focused church
- Simple steps lead to ‘next-level’ ministry to communities
- Arkansas House passes bill allowing guns in church
- Kay Warren: Following Christ means being ‘seriously disturbed’
- It takes a village to renew community and build healthy society
- Relying on pastors for everything limits ministry, speaker says
- Scientific organizations, court: ‘intelligent design’ isn’t science
- 'Young-earth' creationists value literal reading of God’s word over human intellect
- Intelligent design renews debate between science and religion
- Evolution Sunday says dichotomy between faith and science is false
- Two centuries after his birth, Darwin still controversial
- Human trafficking is all too real, filmmaker discovers
- Environmental damage hurts children and elderly most
- Predatory gambling preys on weakness for profit, activist insists
- Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller dies
- Christian social entrepreneurs measure success by a different yardstick
- Youth from three denominations celebrate unity at Disney
- Survey: Protestants no more loyal to denomination than toothpaste brand
- UPDATE: Warren's church says violence no excuse for divorce
- Church adopts Hooters, both adopt Hurricane Ike victims
- Texas Tech kicker's rise to fame grounded in faith
- New Jersey sides with lesbian couple in dispute with church camp
- Robertson predicts economic recovery, 'socialism' in 2009
- Controversy over inaugural prayer is nothing new
- Survey says most Americans believe in multiple paths to salvation
- Pastor calls for 'un-blending' of secular, sacred Christmas traditions
- Anti-gay church's Santa protest latest part of Washington holiday 'circus'
- Ky. church, in Advent tradition, remembers homicide victims
- 'True Woman' movement seeks counter-revolution to feminism
- Studies show rise in greenhouse gases in 2007
- WMU WorldCrafts program brings income to impoverished, gifts to U.S.
- A 'Simple Christmas' suggestion box
- Tough economic times don’t dim lights on Living Christmas Trees
- Have yourself a simple little Christmas
- Fair trade fights poverty, allows gift giving with a clear conscience
- Documentary on Christians and porn to have TV premiere
- Economy putting pressure on Thanksgiving food ministries
- Global downturn necessitates redoubling of U.S. anti-poverty efforts, report says
- Equality Riders arrested
at Union University
- Baptist church in Florida again offends Muslims with message
- Father, Son & Who?
- On the Trinity, Baptist worship largely settles for two out of three
- Charismatic Southern Baptists see themselves as open to spiritual gifts
- Trinity debate trickles down to gender roles
- Baptist criminal-justice activist applauds Ga. stay of execution
- Counselor: Digital age poses pastoral challenges to church
- Book proposes 'triage' amid lukewarm church giving
- 'Billy: The Early Years'
falls flat in box office
- Human Rights & Wrongs: Not all coercion is torture, ethicist says
- Human Rights & Wrongs: Torture has consequences for body, soul
- Human Rights & Wrongs: Why the religious silence on torture?
- Human Right & Wrongs: Christians should defend rights, ethicist says
- Gay-rights ‘Equality Ride’ targets Baptist colleges
- Survey: Megachurches more intimate, believers less gullible than stereotypes
- Missions in a Dangerous World: Don’t deceive, expert says
- Missions in a Dangerous World: Tell the whole truth?
- Missions in a Dangerous World
- Healing the Sick: Candidates’ health plans reflect different visions for government
- Healing the Sick: Bible class project sparks international medical ministry
- Healing the Sick: Texas church reclaims biblical healing mandate
- Healing the Sick: Baptist layman provides gift of life to music minister
- Healing the sick: Chaplains, charity care distinguish faith-based hospitals
- Cowboy churches lassoing America
- Mimicking trends could turn musician into worship 'barista,' leader warns
- Mentoring program helps ministers chart true course
- Separate identity key to softening spouses' hurt
- Rejected ministers find acceptance and help
- Gap between dreams, reality often cause of pastors' wounds
- Church observers ask: Where have all the good men gone?
- Economy may affect churches in ways other than giving
- To support military families through divorce, a few tips
- ‘Dear Jane’ letters a problem for military spouses at home
- Third World Faith: Church tells story of Jesus to Sudanese
- Third-World Faith: Hub of world Christianity shifts to ‘Global South'
- Jesus in MySpace: Churches use social-networking sites
- Most evangelicals, Baptists tolerant, even universalist, survey suggests
- Love & Marriage: What happens when cohabitating couples want to join the church?
- Love & Marriage: Couples counting down to wedding consider program time well-spent
- Love and Marriage: Church, state uneasy bedfellows in recognizing legal marriages
- No easy answers dealing with religious, civil dimensions of marriage
- Caspian more violent than virtuous, scholars say; but what about 3rd movie?
- Pass the Popcorn: Christians struggle to decide how best to engage culture
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- Online ministry offers diverse prayer resources
- Retiring CBF head to lead new center for Baptist leadership
- Seminary trustees to confront president over audit, management issues
- Land says Obama mandate most anti-Catholic government action in 150 years
- Fulfilling the Great Commission
- Effective global missions demands multicultural partnerships
- Baptist agencies don't recruit nationals for U.S. missionary service
- Ministry to new immigrants presents challenges, opportunities
- Missionaries heading from East to West
- SBC leader criticizes Komen reversal
- Veteran Baptist communicator Lloyd Householder dies
- Komen denies caving to pressure to defund Planned Parenthood
- Pastor's anti-gambling prayer criticized as political
- Study: 2/3 of Americans support renting school buildings to churches
- Historic MLK Day service held in Russia
- Former aide says Southern Baptists had clout in Bush White House
- Former Baptist minister paroled for sex crimes
- Mohler says insurance mandate not just 'Catholic' issue
- Baptist pastor opposes N.C. gay-marriage ban
- SBC leader questions judgment of Christians who support Obama
- SBC agency opposes cockfighting
- Former pastor's wife running for lieutenant governor
- Mohler slams stem-cell study
- Woman to lead American Baptists in Indiana, Kentucky
- Anti-violence advocate awarded by FBI
- Leonard installed in Baptist studies chair at Wake divinity school
- Pujols' foundation committed to St. Louis area
- Pressler confab evokes bad memories for former SBC leader
- African-American Texas Baptist pioneer dies
- CBF search committee seeks input
- WMU leads in advocating for children victimized by trafficking
- Human trafficking: 21st century slavery
- Church administrator charged with theft
- Supreme Court declines to review prayer case
- Jim Newton, Baptist journalist, dies at 75
- Pressler denies Santorum endorsement was rigged
- MLK holiday a day of service for church
- Two years after quake, Baptist dedicate school, orphanage in Haiti
- President proclaims Religious Freedom Day
- Clergy say evolution, faith can co-exist
- Board elects Hardage BGCT executive director
- CBF workers report progress, need on second anniversary of Haiti quake
- Youth minister arrested
- Supreme Court upholds 'ministerial exception' to employment discrimination laws
- Former congressman named to Baylor chair
- 2 churches join Alliance of Baptists
- Baptist sexuality conference program released
- Former youth pastor, teacher charged with molestation
- Francis McBeth, world-renowned composer, dies at 78
- Can Sunday School be saved?
- Online Sunday school class offers 'easy-access Bible study'
- Gilyard hasn't ruled out starting new church
- Documentary claims age-graded Sunday school harms families
- Sunday school an evolving institution
- Seven arrested in protest of NYC church ban
- Women's Bible commentary promotes 'complementarian' roles for sexes
- Former pastor claims reassignment was race-based
- Clergy sex offender released from prison
- Non-Catholics join opposition to contraceptive-coverage mandate
- 'Birther' lawsuit has setback
- 2011 notable deaths
- Year in review: Newsmakers in 2011
- Scholar says Christmas as 'celebration of domesticity' a modern invention
- BWA, SBC leaders meet for first time since 2004
- Gaza Baptist Church, 'functioning' but 'restricted,' says Brother Andrew
- Baptists, Pentecostals seek common ground
- S.C. Baptist leader says Gingrich top choice
- Former staffer at SBC mega-church focus of abuse investigation
- SNAP protests pharmacy license for accused predator
- Group says Southern Baptists oppose religious equality in the military
- Alleged peeping evangelist charged in third town
- Pastor describes 'reform' of Baptist church
- Hardage nominated for BGCT executive director
- NAE releases paper on climate, poverty
- Mohler defends Virgin Birth
- Church-state group says proposed hospital merger unconstitutional
- Nativity scene dispute puts focus on Texas town
- Carter Center, Hong Kong Baptist University launch joint venture
- School district settles suit with Tennessee ACLU
- Pastor found guilty of child abuse
- Task force completes study of SBC name change
- Churches balance reality, reverence when Christmas falls on Sunday
- Ecumenical dialogue clarifies Baptist beliefs, says prof
- Church kicked out of association appeals for funds
- CBF gets grant to assist ministers in first church
- Coalition requests policy on faith-based hiring
- 'Occupy' movement comes to church
- Former pastor, educator Jack McEwen dies
- Group urges churches to open pulpits to first-time women preachers
- Pastor says Jesus wouldn't remove church with woman pastor
- Supreme Court won't review NYC ban on worship in schools
- Church withdraws from association that ousted woman pastor
- Gay-marriage stand costs pastor his pulpit
- Baptist fined in Uzbekistan
- Parole decision delayed for former music minister convicted of abuse
- Scholars say evangelicals tinkering with the Trinity
- Baylor professor fighting dismissal charges
- Church leader questioned about handling of sexual abuse allegation
- Race issue rises in St. Louis Covenant dialogue
- Australian Baptists oppose detention of asylum seekers
- CBS News to focus on Burmese refugees at Kentucky church
- Founding ABP board member Ardelle Clemons dies
- Report: Michele Bachmann no longer attending Baptist church
- Passport devotional series for Advent and Christmas now online
- Divinity students aim to heal 'unseen war wounds'
- Wounded Warriors: Returning veterans, families struggle to adjust
- St. Louis 'Covenant' event opens with worship, ends with ministry
- Trafficking: False promises, desperation lure woman
- News Analysis: Churches not typically first reporters of sexual abuse
- Baptist church takes stand for gay marriage
- Low attendance disappoints New Baptist Covenant planners
- SBC leader says churches not immune from 'anti-child culture'
- Panel: Churches need to take lead in race relations
- OKC New Baptist Covenant takes aim at payday lending
- Jimmy Carter notes progress in building Baptist unity
- New Baptist Covenant speakers proclaim 'release' to captives
- International social work program gets major gift
- BWA leaders call African Baptists to 'justice and deeds of mercy'
- Letter opposing Christian Zionism sparks Israel debate
- Baylor course title sparks controversy
- Sports complex opens with Pujols basketball game
- Diverse Canadian Baptists cover miles, cultures
- Yale professor cites similarities between Mormons, Southern Baptists
- British Baptist newspaper to cease publication
- Environmentalists celebrate pipeline delay
- Gay-rights group accuses Baptists of hypocrisy
- Pastor writes Bible study for Harry Potter movies
- National Baptists, NAACP co-sponsor empowerment conference
- Baptists, Orthodox consider formal dialogue
- Baptist cooperation developed slowly but took root deeply
- Crossing boundaries in ministry poses opportunities, challenges
- Does Calvinism extol God's glory or make him a moral monster?
- Baptist Peace Fellowship to re-issue sexuality resource
- American Baptist leader named president-elect for NCC
- CBF coordinator search committee named
- Virginia Baptists elect first black president, restore ties to Averett
- NC Baptists support gay-marriage ban
- Mohler says Penn State scandal holds lesson for Southern Baptists
- Book covers Civil War in Baptists' own words
- SBC leader compares personhood movement to abolition
- BWA leaders bring 'fullness of what it means to be Baptist' to peace summit
- Religious leaders urge probe into FBI training procedures
- Pastor at center of school-prayer flap
- Ohio Baptists ask NAMB to reconsider funding cuts
- Chinese government awards Baptist missionary
- Church converts donated bank building to ministry center
- Mercer grants domestic-partner benefits to gays
- Additional charges filed against alleged peeping evangelist
- New Baptist Covenant II finalizes speaker lineup for Nov. gathering
- Pastor apologizes for Halloween tract
- New Mexico Baptists affirm Glorieta
- N.C. county petitions U.S. Supreme Court to hear prayer case
- Baptist school expels transgender student
- Evangelist charged with video voyeurism
- Book details rise of independent churches
- Shorter University adds new faith statements
- Mississippi Baptists back 'Personhood Amendment'
- CBF finishes fiscal year 15 percent behind budget
- Texas pastors weigh in on Rob Bell controversy
- Church-state expert said minorities face biggest threats to religious liberty
- Church deemed too Calvinist for Kentucky Baptist association
- BWA officials to join global religious leaders for day of prayer for peace
- BGCT approves budget, rejects attempt to restore Baylor to full level
- Pair charged with theft from Baptist church
- BGCT approves renegotiated agreement with Baylor University
- Mayor proclaims day of service in memory of Baptist crash victim
- CBF task force suggests organizational change
- Richmond seminary marks 20 years since first classes began
- CBF officers narrowing list of nominees for coordinator search committee
- Social justice apart from the church not 'kingdom work,' author says
- Master's in Christian leadership for Hispanics created by DBU & BUA
- Texas Baptists push to eliminate violence along Mexico border
- Baptist General Convention of Texas celebrates 125 years of ministry
- SBC leader cites Calvinism as top challenge
- Couponing helps family, leads to ministry opportunities
- Baptists fined for unregistered worship in Belarus
- Trial date set for accused clergy predator
- Faith leader says panel facing funding challenge isn't effective
- Buckner closes retirement home
- Advocate says Baptists ill-equipped to address sexual abuse by clergy
- Missouri Baptists elect leader
- Group says IRS should investigate church for endorsing Rick Perry
- Church cancels services, packs meals for hungry children
- Baptist groups denounce transgender attacks
- Woman admits to embezzling funds from Baptist nursing school
- Baptist camp director charged with online solicitation of a minor
- Virginia Baptists to consider renewed ties with Averett University
- Civil War changed Americans' view of Providence, historian says
- How to conduct a basic church security survey
- Churches advised to begin by assessing risks
- Safe and secure from all alarm
- Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights pioneer, dies at 89
- Baptist peace group urges prayer for Liberian elections
- Supreme Court hears arguments in important church-state case
- Man sentenced in church embezzlement
- Pastor acquitted on molestation count
- High court says World Vision can hire only Christians
- Former preacher sentenced for incest
- Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obama's eligibility
- Professor says Adam's sin was failure to lead
- BWA voices solidarity with Iranian pastor facing death sentence
- Study: Bible readers oppose gender-inclusive translations
- White House condemns death sentence for Iranian Christian
- Former music minister indicted
- BGCT moves forward with funding cut, new agreement with Baylor
- CBF young leader network sponsoring Kentucky retreat
- Leland Center relocates
- After 20 years, BTSR celebrates its past, looks toward the future
- CBFMO offers incentive for churches to consider women as pastors
- Baptist university contributes to Pujols Foundation as partner
- Alabama Baptists remain on sidelines of immigration debate
- Jameson joins Wake Forest advancement staff
- SBC leader says gay marriage not 'live and let live'
- Second CBF leader announces retirement plans
- Adam and Eve back in the news
- Answering the call when nobody calls
- Should ministers get second chances?
- Matching church and clergy methods differ by denomination
- To beckon Baby Boomers, adopt multifaceted ministry approaches
- Baptist delegation visits Uzbekistan
- Baptist leader says executing murderers is pro-life
- Presidential candidate links Israel policy to religious faith
- Southern Baptists consider sale of conference center
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship effort to address rural poverty in Missouri
- Professors denounce 'Christian Zionism'
- Southern Baptists consider name change
- Belief in active God & free market closely linked, survey reveals
- Coalition asks Obama to clarify remarks on faith-based hiring
- Court refuses to intervene in church dispute over elder rule
- Suit challenges tax break for clergy
- South Carolina CBF hosting Brian McLaren
- Church building homes for victims of spring tornadoes
- Violence taking toll on Syria's Christians
- Wake Forest endowed chair honors Baptist leaders
- Clergy seek clemency for death-row inmate
- Court upholds graduations in church
- Baptist university president plans August 2012 retirement
- CBF officers seek search committee members
- State department cites religious freedom violations
- Morally, 9/11 mixed for Americans, theologian says at Baptist seminary
- Baptists aid Syrian refugees pouring into Lebanon
- Passport begins week of online 9/11 reflections
- Baptists minister to physical, spiritual needs caused by Texas wildfires
- Vestal announces decision to retire as CBF executive coordinator
- One woman's challenge to transition to new life as 'one'
- Single adults represent tremendous mission field
- Singles ministry tough, but vital
- Single but not alone
- Baptists among religious leaders in event to mourn victims of 9/11
- Former music minister charged with sex crimes
- CBF-sponsored sexuality conference taking shape
- Texas Baptists support firefighters battling wildfires
- T, Kathie Thomas leaving Oklahoma CBF
- Judge grants Villanueva motion to stay in US
- Church embezzler gets 44 months in prison
- Prosecutors want information from church about former minister suspected of child abuse
- Debate over Adam and Eve continues
- Richmond churches offer showers, laundry to neighbors still in dark
- Peacemaker crosses globe to share non-violent approach to conflict
- Holbrook joins Academy of Preachers leadership
- Baptist relief agencies begin Mid-Atlantic cleanup in wake of Irene
- Faith & work
- Churches offer 'Soul Food,' encouragement to the unemployed
- Beyond immediate ministry, Christians called to address social inequities
- Opinion: Two lies for Labor Day
- Irene only most visible disaster
- Longtime SBC leader Cecil Ray dies
- Bible translation pioneer dies
- Worship resources offered for 9/11 anniversary
- Australian Baptists oppose gay marriage
- Baylor faces potential reduction in BGCT funding plan
- Job Corps injects hope into discouraged hearts
- Churches near quake's epicenter left with cracked walls, broken glass
- LifeWorks joins pieces for women in mountains
- Former Congressman, civil-rights activist, among freed Libyan captives
- Voice injury forces pastor to take medical leave
- Baptist leaders urge Naga reconciliation
- New monastics practice Jesus' hospitality and find stability
- Fulbright to retire from WMU-NC
- Central Seminary prepares students for urban ministry
- New Bible translation seeks common ground
- ABP to honor Bob Stephenson with Founders Award
- Kentucky association ousts church for opening doors to pro-gay group
- Police ask judge to dismiss lawsuit over shooting of Georgia pastor
- Lottie Moon's death story a myth, new book contends
- Missouri Baptist Foundation elects president
- Progressive National Baptist Convention celebrates 50 years
- BTSR announces new staff members
- Can technology usher in another Pentecost?
- Equipping the equippers
- Traditional divinity program aids ministry in nontraditional contexts
- Seminaries adapt to changing religious landscape
- Pastor renews call for database of clergy credibly accused of sex abuse
- Texas Baptists send $25,000 for East Africa famine relief
- Mark Hatfield remembered as champion for religious liberty
- New president believes in strong role for women's college
- Abuse confession raises questions of cover-up by Baptist mega-church
- 'Send Me, O Lord, Send Me' author Ross Coggins dies
- Pastor doesn't want to perform weddings until all can wed
- Court strikes down school board's prayer policy
- Evangelicals counter 'Circle of Protection'
- Churches, city preparing to make 10th anniversary of 9/11 a time of healing
- Church hosts alternative to Perry prayer rally
- Colleges, universities, pledge to interfaith community service
- Appeals court rules against Forsyth County prayer policy
- 'Foster care saved my life,' says resident
- Pastor retires from church that was model for 'The Waltons'
- Fostering isn't for everyone, but everyone can play a part
- Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God's plan
- Not called to foster? Here are other ways to help
- Common myths about foster care
- November New Baptist Covenant II gatherings taking shape
- Early in children's services, Baptists try to keep pace with change
- Advocates seek foster parents in churches
- Mars Hill pours itself into Madison County
- Family offers ministry of presence in Colombia
- Baptists in Azerbaijan warned not to meet without state approval
- U.S. Baptists provide funds for drought-ravaged East Africa
- BWA expresses solidarity with Baptists in Norway
- Some troubled by 'Christian' label for Norwegian shooter
- Former British Baptist pastor sentenced for sexual abuse
- SBC leader criticizes Senate Democrats
- China Christian Council confirms continued ties with Virginia Baptists
- US Baptists building bridges in China through basketball clinics
- Hall announces retirement; Reyes named Buckner CEO
- Author seeks stories of 'exiled' young adult Baptists
- Judge vacates $4.75 million judgment against church
- Pastor disagrees with SBC leader about homosexuality
- 'Circle of Protection' makes case to President Obama
- Faith leader challenges Cain's statements about Islam
- Obama supports repeal of federal marriage law
- NYT says Michele Bachmann now a Baptist
- Gaddy chastises TV station for belittling Mormonism
- After 59 years, Bible teacher has no plans to move beyond first grade
- Layman's vision enables church to provide ministerial internship
- Unsung Heroes
- Custodian keeps church neat and clean for four decades
- Computer system works behind the scenes to help churches meet needs
- Former Gardner-Webb prof acquitted of prostitution charge
- Nigerian Baptist head says government unable to control radical sect
- Wallis, Land disagree about deficit causes
- Church faces ouster for allowing pro-gay group to meet
- Australian Baptist leaders clarify stance on gay marriage
- Faith leaders join challenge to Alabama's immigration law
- Book asks 'Is God a Christian?'
- Baptist World Alliance presents human-rights award
- Baptist leaders join coalition in calling for action against Iran
- BWA to explore dialogue with Pentecostals, Orthodox
- BWA commission urges continued dialogue with Muslims
- Laughter makes worlds overlap says comic pastor
- Pastor says God chooses who will be saved
- Burmese refugees joyful despite persecution, say visitors
- Missouri Baptist Foundation files second appeal
- Baptists travel to Malaysia for annual meeting
- Patriotism, spiritual ties may pull Christians in opposite directions
- One Nation Under God
- Hispanic Convention creates its own governing board
- Does the Star-Spangled Banner belong in the church sanctuary?
- Civil religion: Lowest common denominator or common ground?
- Baptists should understand, teach church-state separation
- Central Seminary launches full teaching center in Tennessee
- CBF founder says freedom movement must avoid 'sloppy discipleship'
- Summit offers ideas, networking to fight poverty
- Passport hires staff member to help children, youth discover God's calling
- Cuban prison chaplains graduate
- CBF pastor says tell stories of why moderates left, not who
- Blind artist Ken Medema articulates his art form
- Hull offers interim vision report
- Dunn uplifts 'soul freedom' at BJC luncheon
- CBF commissions self-funded missionaries
- Reduced financial contributions still a problem, CBF council told
- Report: Women ministers gaining ground in Baptist life
- BJC defends limits on lawsuits against religious organizations
- AFA's Bryan Fischer accuses SBC of pandering to gays, illegal aliens
- SBC resolution targets Sharia law
- White woman's passion leads to black history museum
- Author says tale of pistol-packing preacher holds lasting lessons
- Is marriage a 'dying' institution?
- Study examines what families want from their church
- Ministry seeks to make marriages divorce-proof
- Mohler says Baptists must repent of homophobia
- Southern Baptists ‘cannot commend’ new NIV Bible translation
- Southern Baptists affirm doctrine of hell
- Southern Baptists re-elect president
- Southern Baptists issued '1 percent challenge' for Cooperative Program
- Executive Committee recommends changes for mission boards
- SBC reports statistical decline
- Longtime Baptist journalist Bill Junker dies
- Brueggemann points to a food fight in Scripture
- 2010 Lottie Moon Offering falls short
- Groups call on SBC to apologize for treatment of gays
- Professor says Southern Baptists should elect black president
- Funds primary need for Joplin recovery
- Arrest of music minister shocks California church
- Former NAMB head praying for Obama’s defeat
- WMU of India’s new website enhances anti-poverty goals
- SBC leader criticizes Obama on Israel
- Opinion opens doors to guns in Va. churches, but some pastors are wary
- BWA preparing for UN Earth Summit in 2012
- Joplin pastor: Where do we go from here?
- Baptist college hires female chaplain with ties to CBF
- Civil War, Civil Rights
- Caribbean Baptists voice solidarity with U.S. tornado victims
- Theology no issue as volunteers Converge on disaster sites
- South African Baptist scholar dies
- CBF, Mercer collaborate to offer conference on sexuality in 2012
- In November, Baptists in Virginia will be dancing in the streets -- literally
- Ministry celebrates 15 years of broadcasting in the Arab world
- Joplin church digging out, while mourning three killed in tornado
- Southern Baptists to review assignments of mission boards
- Christians can eliminate widespread hunger, advocates insist
- Redemptive aid demands ‘kingdom collaboration,’ Buckner chief says
- Causey retires from Center for Congregational Health
- BGCT Executive Board calls for renegotiated agreement with Baylor
- Tornadoes continue to spawn in central U.S.
- Baptists help victims of Myanmar earthquake
- Focus stays on outreach with new facility
- Rural church converts child care space to senior center
- Three die at Joplin church hit by tornado
- Historical Society celebrates Baptists’ 'singing faith' with hymn festival
- Former IMB chair nominated as Kentucky exec
- Panel finds defining 'Baptist university' not a simple task
- Unlikely allies weave myth of Christian America, historian says
- Judge dismisses most of suit challenging Tennessee mosque
- Wellness responsibility of both minister and church
- Ministry rebuilds damaged ministries
- 10 practices for ministerial health
- Healthy ministers, healthy churches
- Pastor charged with molestation
- BJC says Oklahoma Sharia ban unconstitutional
- 10 Ways to help overcome religious illiteracy
- Ergun Caner moving to school begun by J. Frank Norris
- Christians, Muslims, Jews to share sacred texts
- Lawyer: Former prof’s lawsuit against Baptist college ‘moot’
- Religious-freedom ambassador takes oath of office
- Pastor, denominational statesman James Pleitz dies
- Ed Vick, moderate Baptist lay leader, dies
- Louisiana Baptists oppose bullying bill
- North Carolina journalist joins staff of Religious Herald
- Big Muddy/Clean Water awarded $5,000 grant
- Baylor School of Social Work welcomes alumni from Carver School
- BJC says county’s prayer policy threatens religious liberty
- Alliance of Baptists acts out call for economic justice
- 'Baptists Today' launches Bible study curriculum
- Virginia Baptists exploring renewed ties with Averett
- Multisite fans view approach as good stewardship
- Church start or church satellite? Decision can be difficult
- Multisite ministry by any other name …
- Hybrid multisite model uses multiple approaches
- Multisite multiplication
- Texas Baptist Men clear trees, lift spirits following Alabama tornadoes
- Race relations: Progress slow but steady
- School district sued over religious activity
- BJC says National Day of Prayer proclamation ‘unwise’
- After 30 years, moderate advocacy group ends nominee endorsements
- Texas Baptist Men chainsaw crews headed to Alabama
- Chaplains help deal with shock after wind passes
- Researchers study return on short-term missions
- Baptist race-relations pioneer dies
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