Proposal Would Put Jesus Back into CBF Constitution

Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will consider a preamble to the CBF constitution restoring references to Jesus Christ and the Great Commission dropped from a purpose statement this summer. At its June 30-July 1 General Assembly in Grapevine, Texas, the...

Whites Commit More Crimes Than Blacks, FBI Says

Whether or not Bill Bennett’s offhand comment that aborting black babies would reduce the crime rate was racist, it was wrong. “[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down,” Bennett said on his radio program...

Alliance of Baptists Organizes in Brazil

Reacting to fundamentalism in Southern Baptist-influenced state conventions in Brazil, about 60 Brazilian Baptists have started an organization modeled after the Alliance of Baptists in the United States, paving the way for what one observer viewed as a “global...