MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- Dozens were killed as a historic tornado moved through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon (May 20) prompting the North American Mission Board to direct al ... (0 comments)
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- CNN reported on a tragic story about a woman whose boyfriend tricked her into taking an abortion-inducing drug after she told him she was pregnant. The boyfriend, John Andrew ... (0 comments)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- More than 250 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students received degrees ranging from certificates to doctorates during spring commencement exercises on the seminary lawn. ... (0 comments)
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- We all have "I" trouble. Our first thoughts tend to be of ourselves, and we're jealous for our own standing. Our conversation centers on ourselves. Our spending is lavished on ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Legalized assisted suicide has moved from the Northwest to the Northeast and from the ballot box to the statehouse.Vermont became the third state in the country to enact physician-a ... (0 comments)
RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- R.G. "Gene" Puckett, 80, longtime editor of the Biblical Recorder, died May 12 in Raleigh, N.C., after a battle with pancreatic cancer."He has a variety of outstanding talents," ... (0 comments)
Today's From the States features items from:Dakota Baptist ConnectionsBaptist New MexicanSouthern Baptist TexanI-29 group targetsSioux Falls, S.D.By Karen L. WilloughbyOMAHA, Neb. (Dakota Baptist Conn ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a prayer case that could have a major impact on the intersection between church and state and finally bring clarity to what is constitut ... (0 comments)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Implementation of expanded academic offerings at both the college and seminary levels at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was announced during the April 29 trustee meet ... (0 comments)
HARTFORD, Conn. (BP) -- I made a startling observation in visiting a local church recently -- one I had never noticed before.I was blessed to join with many families around me worshiping. Then, I noti ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (BP)--Congress' latest response to the grisly Kermit Gosnell case is a proposed nationwide ban on late-term procedures like the ones the convicted Philadelphia abortion doctor performed reg ... (0 comments)
HOUSTON (BP) -- Members of the Tellers Committee for the June 11-12 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Houston have been named by SBC President Fred Luter.Kenneth Priest of Prestonwood Bapt ... (0 comments)
HOUSTON (BP)--Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter has named members of the Credentials Committee for the June 11-12 annual meeting in Houston.Royce Sweatman of Harrison, Ark., director of ... (0 comments)
ROGERS, Ark. (BP) -- Turner Bowman* walked into a jail cell as the door slammed behind him. He knew all too well the sounds, smells and sights of captivity. "I was serving as a jail chaplain when God ... (0 comments)
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Attorneys are warning of dire legal ramifications resulting from a change in the Boy Scouts of America's membership policy as delegates prepare to consider the proposal at their nati ... (0 comments)
EDITOR'S NOTE: BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases of interest from other sources. The items are published as rec ... (0 comments)
LAHORE, Pakistan (BP) -- The Pakistani college students stepped gingerly through the pile of bricks, barely recognizing the church building. Its once-white walls were ashen from hours of burning and h ... (0 comments)
NOTA DEL EDITOR: La columna First-Person (De primera mano) es parte de la edición de hoy de BP en español. Para ver historias adicionales, vaya ahttp://www.bpnews.net/espanolLA MIRADA, Calif. (BP) - ... (0 comments)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust de ... (0 comments)
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)