A Baptist and a Mullah Team Up to Fight Taliban
A Baptist Army officer has teamed up with an Afghan mullah to fight Taliban propaganda that calls the Afghan army godless. “The only way we can keep people from becoming Taliban is by promoting the...
View ArticleParents Reunite With Haitian 'Orphans' Taken by US Group
As 10 Americans wait in a Haitian jail for a court hearing, which a prosecutor says could include criminal conspiracy charges, the children they are accused of trying to spirit out of the country...
View ArticleClinton Foe Ken Starr to Lead Baylor U.
Ken Starr, whose investigation as a special prosecutor helped propel the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, is to be the next president of Baylor University, the Baptist Texas school announced...
View ArticleBaptist Pastors Prayed for Obama Death on Presidents Day
While a handful of Americans might have taken a few minutes to reflect favorably on George Washington and Abe Lincoln on Presidents Day, some evangelical leaders devoted their time to praying for...
View ArticleAlabama Gov: OK, You're All My Brothers!
Robert Bentley is quickly getting the hang of being a politician: Alabama's new governor stuck his foot in it in his first hour in office, and now he's rapidly mastering the art of apologizing. "If...
View ArticleBaptist Perry Backer Calls Mormonism a 'Cult'
Rick Perry spoke today at the conservative Values Voter Summit, but the guy who introduced him seems to be stealing all the headlines. That would be Robert Jeffress, a Baptist pastor of a Dallas...
View ArticlePreacher Loses Radio Show Over Trayvon Rant
Southern Baptist Convention officials today reprimanded prominent Baptist preacher and ethicist Richard Land and canceled his radio show, over controversial comments he made in the wake of the Trayvon...
View ArticleSouthern Baptists to Elect First Black President
When the Southern Baptist Convention originally broke away from the main Baptist church, it was over its support for slavery. So it'll be a pretty big deal when Rev. Fred Luter Jr. becomes its...
View ArticleMan Gets 25 Years in Prison for Torching Black Churches
Three Black churches in Louisiana whose roots stretch back to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period were burned to the ground in 2019, and now a 23-year-old white man is being held accountable for...
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