News Articles by Ken Walker

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP)–It isn’t clear whether the Illinois Senate will tackle a bill to lease the state’s lottery at a special session in November, but regardless of that legislation it is only one of a dozen states contemplating such action. The prospect of using private companies to operate lotteries violates a basic premise behind their […]

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (BP)--On Sept. 15, during "First Class," a mandatory course for incoming freshmen, nearly a third of Campbellsville University's incoming students responded to an altar call by evangelist Rick Gage.

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The largest spiritual response in Taylor County, Ky.'s history has lessons for Southern Baptist congregations across the nation ...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Do military chaplains have the right to pray in Jesus' name in ceremonies outside of chapel services? The military insists they do, but U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R.-N.C., is attempting to write that guarantee into federal law.

ELDORADO, Texas (BP)--A Baptist congregation housed about 80 women and children April 4-6 after a raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) near Eldorado, Texas.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)–The National Football League’s reversal over Super Bowl screenings in family friendly settings is a victory for the church at large, according to pastors contacted by Baptist Press. “It’s finally gotten into the realm of common sense,” said John Newland, pastor of Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis. Fall Creek’s canceled Super Bowl party […]

ATLANTA (BP)--Forced terminations in the Southern Baptist Convention were down during 2006, but those who issued the latest report say work remains to be done to reconcile conflicts between pastors and congregations.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP)--John Whitehead is aching to take the National Football League to court but can't find a church willing to take on the influential pro football colossus.       "You go to any bar on Super Bowl Sunday and they'll be showing the game on their [big screen] TVs," the president of The Rutherford Institute said.       The conservative nonprofit legal organization represented Fall Creek Baptist Church last February in its legal tussle with the NFL.       "They want to restrict it to a 55-inch screen, which in a big church you'd need binoculars to see," Whitehead said. "It's designed to prevent churches and groups like that from doing this. If churches en masse wanted to do this, they could get the law changed."

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Even though Fall Creek Baptist Church couldn't host a 2007 Super Bowl party, pastor John Newland said the National Football League did his church a favor.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (BP)--For the last three Christmas seasons, Westside Baptist Church's choir has sung at shopping malls in Warner Robins, Ga., and in neighboring Macon, located about 80 miles south of Atlanta.