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CBF announces virtual 2020 General Assembly in response to pandemic

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s 2020 General Assembly will be an online experience instead of an in-person gathering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CBF Executive Coordinator Paul Baxley announced in an April 2 statement. Instead of traveling to downtown Atlanta this…

Former missionary kids document creative compassion down ‘The Good Road’ on PBS

A new television series premiering April 6 on PBS promises to introduce viewers to some of the most innovative acts of courage and kindness around the planet. “The Good Road” is a journey led by philanthropists and adventurers Earl Bridges…

‘A little PTSD’ results from Baptist minister’s harrowing COVID-19 encounter

A Baptist music minister is emerging from a life-threatening encounter with COVID-19 preaching the gospel of social isolation. “Do everything you can to stay home,” Tommy Shapard, minister of music and worship at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida,…

11 self-care reminders for clergy and other caregivers

Amid a global pandemic and its immediate and long-term repercussions, consider these reminders for pastors, other ministers and all caregivers.

From disorientation to reorientation: Turning forced isolation into Sabbath experiences

Sabbath strips away the notion that our worth is defined by our activity. Sabbath affirms that our worth is not in doing; it is in being.

Our lives are part of a great sacred story that goes on. Even in a global pandemic

Though life now feels like a wild, roller coaster ride of emotions, we are part of something much bigger than the unfolding devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. Our lives, even now, are woven into a great sacred story.

Ministry jobs and more

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Grief process intensified as social distancing impacts funerals, pastoral care | #intimeslikethese

“I definitely think it’s going to make for traumatic grief.”

What self-care means for pastors and other church leaders in a time of crisis | #intimeslikethese

In these unprecedented times, it’s important for all of us to remember that, because we’ve never been precisely here before, there is no template, map, app or handbook for the right way to lead and to be church.

BNG’s Barbara Francis retires after 30 years with faith-based news groups

Barbara Francis, Baptist News Global’s business manager and advertising director, retired March 31, completing a 30-year career working for two faith-based news organizations. Francis was born and raised in Glen Allen, Virginia and currently resides in Ashland, Virginia, outside Richmond….

A global pestilence stalks in darkness. Will we tempt God or take up our cross? | #intimeslikethese

We can hang onto Jesus with the right hand, grasp our brothers and sisters with the left, and take one bold step into the gathering gloom of Holy Week. That’s what Lent has always been about. That’s what it’s about now, amid a global pestilence that stalks in the darkness.

‘You can’t get a Ph.D. in caring’: COVID-19 calls for believer-priests | #intimeslikethese

With all this grief, on a societal level perhaps not seen since 9/11 or the stock market crash of 1929, we pastors and other church staff sure could use more ministers. For Baptists, this shouldn’t be a novel idea.

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone