When our church was tested by fire

Southern Baptists contributed nearly $134 million to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering this year, the second-largest total in the offerings 115-year history. When the books closed on the 2004 offering May 31, Southern Baptists had given $133,886,221.58. The amount fell…

Kenneth Taylor, whose Living Bible made Scripture understandable for millions of people, died June 10 at the age of 88 at his home in Wheaton, Ill. Taylor based his Living Bible paraphrase, first published in 1971, on existing English Bible…

A Baptist state legislator from New Jersey is taking issue with the satanic symbol and religious name of the New Jersey Devils. “This is an age where symbolism is very important,” state assemblyman Craig Stanley told the Associated Press. Stanley…

Christian groups in India are condemning attacks on four American missionaries in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on June 11. The four American missionaries-Philip Allan, Clover Edward, Craig Allen and Richard Jenal-are from a Church of Christ congregation in…

By Greg Warner Sixteen months from now, Southern Baptists should know if they have been able to reverse their evangelistic decline-or if there is a deeper problem that will require a more drastic remedy-said Bobby Welch as he concluded a…

By Greg Warner Three Baptist organizations are teaming up to provide churches with the tools to celebrate American freedoms “without watering down their devotion to God with civil religion.” The First Freedoms Project-led by Associated Baptist Press, the Baptist Joint…

By Jesse Lyautey Eight Southern Baptist workers have given their lives over the last three years to follow the call of God to reach the lost peoples of the world. A just-released book, Lives Given, Not Taken: 21st Century Southern…

By Judith Cebula April Lundholm, 16, showed up for the bands. The skateboarders were great. And the best part? “It didn't,” she says, “feel like church.” The suburban Minneapolis teenager is describing a Luis Palau Festival, an evangelistic outreach that…

Editorial for June 30, 2005 By Jim White There is much I don't know. Anyone who knows me is not surprised in the least by this statement. But, self-deprecation aside for the moment, there is much I do know as…