Former NAMB Head ‘Saddened,’ ‘Grieved’ by Book

Former North American Mission Board head Bob Reccord says he hasn’t read a new insider book alleging mishandling of donor money at the Southern Baptist Convention agency, but what he has heard about it leaves him “saddened and grieved.”...

Bush Seeks Support for War in State of the Union

Facing waning public and political support, President George W. Bush pleaded with a Democratic Congress to give his plan to escalate the war in Iraq a chance in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. “This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the...

Bellevue Fires Minister at Center of Sex-Abuse Scandal

Bellevue Baptist Church has terminated a minister whose admission of sexual misconduct put the suburban Memphis mega-church in the center of a scandal that has received national attention. Bellevue’s personnel committee voted Sunday to dismiss Paul Williams,...

Rick Scarborough Blasts Clinton-Carter Baptist Confab

Vision America founder Rick Scarborough turned a “New Baptist Covenant” proposed by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton into a fund-raising pitch, calling it an effort to deceive Christians into believing the Bible is compatible with abortion,...