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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Former president Jimmy Carter convened a large assembly of moderate and liberal Baptists in Atlanta a few weeks ago ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)--Rejecting advice from both sides in the evolution debate, the Florida Board of Education voted 4-3 Feb. 19 to add "scientific theory of" before each reference to "evolution" in new science standards for public schools in the Sunshine State.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)–A constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage will be on the November ballot in Florida because supporters gathered 92,000 extra petitions, or signatures, in about two weeks after learning a computer glitch had dropped the previous tally below the 611,000 petition requirement. John Stemberger, chairman of the Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage, was […]

MIAMI (BP)–A referendum to permit slot machines at Miami-Dade County’s pari-mutuel facilities is headed toward a Jan. 29 vote with the opposition of the Miami Baptists, former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham. A resolution adopted by the Miami Baptist Association’s administrative committee has been mailed to the association’s 300-plus churches, whose […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)--Floridians will vote in November 2008 on a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage after the initiative apparently surpassed the 611,009 requirement for qualified signatures to put the proposal before the voters.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)–Drew Weatherford was the stereotypical arrogant quarterback of his Land ‘O Lakes high school football team. Although professing to be a Christian, Weatherford was not living for Christ when a knee injury as a sophomore sidelined him — and God got his attention. “God humbled me extremely” when the injury forced Weatherford to […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (BP)–Holding the most high-profile position on the defending national championship team — making him the biggest Big Man on Campus at a football-crazed school — could easily go to the head of any college sophomore, but Tim Tebow says that football is not even the third most important thing in his life. “I […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Mayor Jim Naugle happens to believe that sex acts should not be permitted in his city's public restrooms.

[QUOTE@right@120="I feel it would be best for me to decline the invitation and to not appear to be giving approval to what could be a political, rather than spiritual agenda."
--Mike Huckabee]JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas, has withdrawn from the New Baptist Covenant Celebration planned for next January in Atlanta in protest of former President Jimmy Carter's labeling of the Bush administration's foreign policy as "the worst in history."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Can Southern Baptists adopt elements of charismatic theology and still be considered Baptist?