With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay ... (0 comments)
ROGERS, Ark. (BP) -- It's a question that both haunts and drives Tom Elliff, the kind that sometimes wakes him in the middle of night. But IMB's president won't answer it until he dies, stands before ... (0 comments)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Frank S. Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, has issued a call to prayer for revival and spiritual awakening for our churches, our nation and our world during 2013. Baptist ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Evidence provided by former workers at a Texas abortion clinic may support what pro-life advocates have been asserting -- Kermit Gosnell is not alone.Douglas Karpen, a Houston abort ... (0 comments)
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Every four years more than 40,000 Boy Scouts and their leaders hold a National Jamboree. This year they are scheduled to gather in July at the new Summit Bechtel Reserve in Wes ... (0 comments)
NASHVILLE (BP) -- The U.S. Department of Education has announced that student financial aid forms will begin using the terms "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" rather than the gender-specific terms "mother" an ... (0 comments)
NOTA DEL EDITOR: La columna First-Person (De primera mano) es parte de la edicià ³n de hoy de BP en espaà ±ol. Para ver historias adicionales, vaya ahttp://www.bpnews.net/espanolLA MIRADA, Calif. (B ... (0 comments)
RICHLAND, Wash. (BP) -- A florist who was told by the state of Washington she must provide her services for a gay wedding is countersuing the state, saying she has served gay customers her entire care ... (0 comments)
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist leaders Frank Page and Richard Land have written letters expressing strong opposition to a proposal that would leave in place the prohibition on homosexual Scout lea ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The entire nation is aware of the horrific acts of Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist. The stories that have come out during his trial for multiple counts of murder of young ... (0 comments)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The Kentucky Baptist Convention Mission Board has approved details of the 2013-14 budget to move Kentucky Baptists to a 50/50 allocation of Cooperative Program dollars between ... (0 comments)
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary presented diplomas to 234 students during its spring commencement, with President Paige Patterson charging the men and women to keep ... (0 comments)
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- "We have to plant more churches," North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell emphasized to NAMB trustees during their May 14-15 meeting in Alpharetta, Ga."The Book of A ... (0 comments)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) -- In their marketing strategies, popular clothes retailer Abercrombie & Fitch strategically excludes the "not-so-cool," especially overweight kids. According to a recent Busin ... (0 comments)
NORTHERN NIGERIA (BP) -- A declaration of a state of emergency in three northern Nigerian states does nothing to address the root cause of a surge in Islamic terrorism against Christians and others, a ... (0 comments)
KOUNTZE, Texas (BP) -- After nearly eight months on defense, cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can get back to pumping up their football team -- and if they want to use a Bible verse on a ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The "brave new world" of human cloning apparently has arrived, and critics are waving the warning flags.Oregon-based scientists reported Wednesday (May 15) they had cloned human emb ... (0 comments)
NASHVILLE (BP) -- This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing tea ... (0 comments)
THORNTON, Colo. (BP) -- Parents are generally clear when it comes to their responsibilities toward their children. They teach the differences between right and wrong. They provide for physical needs s ... (0 comments)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) -- Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize gay marriage Tuesday (May 14), continuing a trend that has seen the number of states that have redefined marriage double within the ... (0 comments)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP) -- Usually my last question for those I interview goes something like this: Got a question you wish I would have asked? That's when the interview becomes the most interesting, o ... (0 comments)
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Opportunities for pastors to deepen their churches' missions involvement and leave a legacy will be highlighted during an IMB-sponsored breakfast and luncheon in conjunction with ... (0 comments)
NEW YORK (BP) -- The ministry founded by famed evangelist Billy Graham and a 180-year-old Baptist newspaper, the Biblical Recorder, say they were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, Fox News has ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Leaders of 80 state and national groups concerned with morality have endorsed a letter asking Congress to block the Federal Communications Commission from weakening the enforcement ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm has made it clear to United States senators it will "actively oppose" immigration reform legislation if it includes provisions fo ... (0 comments)