In Indiana, N.C. primaries,
Obama cuts into Clinton’s Catholic lead

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Echoing his successes in earlier contests, Barack Obama cut into the recent advantage Hillary Clinton had built among Roman Catholics during the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic presidential primaries May 6.

Crowded SBC presidential field
grows by 2: Avery Willis, Johnny Hunt

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) -- A crowded field of hopefuls for the Southern Baptist Convention presidency appears to be developing, with two high-profile candidates set to join three already-announced nominees.

Upcoming ‘Manifesto’ rebukes
evangelicals for becoming pawns

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Several prominent conservative Christian leaders, in a joint statement to be unveiled May 7, are rebuking their fellow American evangelicals for allowing secular politics to co-opt their faith.

Nashville megachurch fails
to oust dissident members

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- A May 4 vote to oust 71 dissident members of Nashville, Tenn., megachurch Two Rivers Baptist Church failed by four votes -- less than half a percent.

Georgetown President William Crouch with Bishop Scholars, (L-R) David Boyle, Ralphael West, Jamar Smith, Ashley Gordon and Ashley Carter-Colwell, outside the Rayburn Building in Washington April 30.

Congressional Black Caucus
honors Georgetown College

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Extraordinary efforts at fostering diversity and building relationships with African-American Baptists earned Georgetown College special recognition April 30 in Washington.

CBF partnering with churches
in Spanish-speaking Caribbean

ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has a new answer for an old question being asked by many CBF churches: “How do we reach Hispanics living in our community?”

Jeremiah Wright culminates
media blitz with feisty defense

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor -- at the center of one of the biggest religious controversies in presidential-campaign history -- culminated a four-day media blitz April 28 with a combination of erudition and combativeness.

Must the new Baptist Calvinism divide churches, denominations?

(ABP) -- Can Calvinist and non-Calvinist Baptists work and worship together?

It depends, some advocates of Reformed theology say, on whether Christians on both sides are willing to tiptoe through the TULIP -- the acronym for five doctrinal specifics that mark Calvinism -- without stomping on anyone’s flower bed.

TULIP stands for total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and perseverance of the saints. Those five doctrines, delineated by the Synod of Dort in the 17th century, summarize distinctive elements of the theological system taught by reformer John Calvin -- particularly as distinguished from the teachings of James Jacobus Arminius, who emphasized free will over determinism.

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