It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
NEW HOME, Texas (ABP) — A Baptist church in Texas is mourning the loss of its new youth minister, who was killed in a hiking accident at a state park. Nathan Neel, 24, recently started working as youth minister at…
Duffer YORKTOWN, Va. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist youth pastor charged with sex crimes involving a teenage girl in Virginia once resigned as pastor of a church in Hawaii to begin a new ministry, citing his "passion" for working with…
CENTRALIA, Mo. (ABP) — Combining three Southern Baptist agencies into the North American Mission Board in 1995 was a bad idea, says the last president of one of the agencies. Larry Lewis, president of the Home Mission Board of the…
CARY, N.C. (ABP) — With income trailing last year’s gifts by 3.2 percent or $647,000 through seven months, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has laid off three people and eliminated six positions, effective immediately. Two of the…
CARY, N.C. (ABP) — With income trailing last year's gifts by 3.2 percent or $647,000 through seven months, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has laid off three people and eliminated six positions, effective immediately. Two of the…
SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (ABP) — James walked in Union Mission’s building with purpose. He stood tall, proud but worried. His shift had been eliminated and now he didn’t have a job or a place to live. He spent the previous…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Samford University has canceled an upcoming event featuring Rick Pitino, the University of Louisville basketball coach in the news for a scandal involving adultery and abortion. Philip Poole, executive director of university communication at the Baptist-affiliated…
SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (ABP) — James walked in Union Mission’s building with purpose. He stood tall, proud but worried. His shift had been eliminated and now he didn’t have a job or a place to live. He spent the previous…
ATLANTA (BP)–The task force charged with helping spark a "Great Commission resurgence" among Southern Baptists held its first meeting Aug. 11-12 in Atlanta, and chairman Ronnie Floyd came away feeling both encouraged by the spirit of the gathering and burdened…
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Terry York is willing to bet that if he goes into a Baptist church, sits down and listens, he can tell — long before the preacher speaks — whether the congregation is theologically conservative or moderate….
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — “If you know what hymns a congregation is most addicted to, you will be able to infer what, in Christianity, means most to that church.” When the late hymnist Erik Routley wrote that in 1982,…
Longtime NAMB staff member Richard Harris was named acting interim president Aug. 12. ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) — North American Mission Board trustees on Aug. 12 named Richard Harris, the organization's senior strategist for missions advancement, as acting interim president…
