By Jeff Brumley The Georgia preacher who proposed a resolution urging the Southern Baptist Convention to get tough on predators says Baptist leaders’ public support of an evangelical preacher accused in a lawsuit of covering up child sex abuse has…
Team seeks to avert SBC split on Calvinism
By Jeff Brumley Growing disagreements over the role of Calvinism will make the Southern Baptist Convention stronger, not weaker, as long as its focus remains on evangelism, members of an advisory team commissioned to study the topic told hundreds in…
VITAL SIGNS: What the gloomy predictions about church overlook
Are you tired of the doomsday rhetoric about the church in America? Have you noticed that the bandwagon of those predicting the imminent demise of congregational life is filled to capacity? Are you ready to tune out another diatribe proclaiming…
Rep says SBC leader wrong on Scouts
By Bob Allen A former denominational worker who now represents the Boy Scouts of America said a former Southern Baptist Convention president is mistaken about the BSA’s new policy ending a membership ban on Scouts who are openly gay. Bryant…
SBC decline catching up with mainline
By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention is “catching up with the Methodists” in dwindling numbers formerly known as the “mainline decline,” the denomination’s head statistician said June 10. LifeWay Christian Resources recently released figures indicating baptisms reported by churches…
Churches leave their mark on Habitat homes, even when they’re not actually on site
MECHANICSVILLE, Va. — When volunteers for Habitat for Humanity are working at build sites, they often use markers to write words of encouragement on 2x4s while the house is under construction, according to Cristi Lawton, development director for Habitat for…
Holiday travelers find welcome from churches at interstate rest stops
PETERSBURG, Va. — As travelers packed their bags and hit the interstates on the way to the beach, campground or other getaways on Memorial Day, volunteers from churches in the Petersburg (Va.) Baptist Association were packing coolers, coffee pots and…
HERITAGE: Father’s Day
Years ago at one of those pastors schools held at the University of Richmond, the late Stuart Grizzard, a renowned and beloved Virginia Baptist minister, said something which stuck. He reminded pastors that those who were parents needed to be…
TRENDING: Spiritual formation and malformations
Dallas Willard’s death in May has given us a chance to think about his substantial legacy, and his contribution to the wonderful trend of turning the core evangelical conversation toward discipleship and life in the Kingdom. Only 30 years ago,…
National Baptist minister to lead black church studies at Duke Divinity School
DURHAM — Eboni Marshall Turman, an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, has been named director of Duke Divinity School’s office of black church studies and assistant research professor of black church studies. Marshall Turman Divinity school…
Housing miracle for struggling KY family
By Jeff Brumley For Shawna Barnett and her husband, Malachi, a lay Church of God preacher, “the Lord works in mysterious ways” took on special meaning Wedneaday when a few dozen Baptist volunteers started building their new home in McCreary…
Baptist Scout leader opposes exodus
By Bob Allen The head of Association of Baptists for Scouting says it is neither necessary nor desirable for churches to leave the Boy Scouts of America because the organization no longer excludes youth based on their sexual orientation. A.J….