Category: Baptist News

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief feeding units are in place more than 24 hours ahead of schedule, with plans to begin no later than Saturday serving 225,000 meals a day in Louisiana and Mississippi. The response adds to the...

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary escaped Hurricane Isaac’s winds and rain with damage estimated at less than $300,000. The slow-moving storm raged on throughout the day Aug. 29, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane...

An Internet video by the former PBS “Science Guy” attacking creationism as “unfit for children” has stirred both creation scientists and intelligent design theorists to counter what they see as...

An advisory team on the issue of Calvinism met “to listen, to learn and to hope,” SBC Executive Committee President Frank Page reported after the 16-member group met Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn. The goal for the...

Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination Thursday night (Aug. 30), delivering an acceptance speech that was dominated by the economy but that also included a defense of the unborn, traditional marriage and a rare mention...

Oklahoma’s Landry Jones enters his senior season as one of the best quarterbacks in school history. But he says his first identity is as a follower of Christ who happens to play football.

A Kansas prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against a Kansas City-area Planned Parenthood facility accused of performing illegal late-term abortions. The decision ended a nine-year legal battle initiated by then-Kansas...

As eyes are drawn to the Amish in the midst of a federal hate crimes trial in Ohio, the Amish also are getting publicity as one of the fastest-growing religions in the U.S.

Columnist R. Albert Mohler Jr. takes a look at the “Clergy Project,” a group whose “mission” is to support pastors who now are atheists.

Political opinion polls have little value, Baptist Press columnist Kelly Boggs writes, who advises: “Study the candidates’ positions, become familiar with party platforms, listen to people you respect and, above all,...

Southern Baptists already are en route to Louisiana and Mississippi as remnants of Hurricane Isaac disrupt the lives of an increasing number of residents in the Gulf Coast region. By the weekend, a total of 36–40 Baptist relief...