Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director
We have a problem and we can’t ignore it any longer.
It’s time we were honest with ourselves and with each other. To pretend we don’t face a serious issue would be a life-threatening mistake. I’m talking about depression among pastors and ministers (and everyone else). Depression is a reality, and I can’t bear the thought of losing one more pastor, one more person, to depression that ends in suicide. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
HUSTONVILLE, Ky. — Pastor Andrew McGinnis still remembers his “solemn drive” home on June 25, 1995. [Read more…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org
Robert Blake, deacon at One Faith Christian Center Church, talks to a group of young men from the West Frayser community before they take the court for pick-up basketball games.
MEMPHIS — It would have been easy for Barron Martin to take the safe route. He could have moved from the Memphis area, found a comfortable job, and simply “tuned out” the violence and poverty that plagues the neighborhood where he was raised.
Instead, he chose the opposite approach. He elected to be on the frontline. [Read more…]
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NEPAL (BP) — Pavan* grew up feeling unsettled in his destiny. As the firstborn son in his family, he thought he would have to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Buddhist monk.
But music intervened into this cultural tradition that should have dictated his future.
Pavan, now a Christian pastor, recounted his past and the persistent fear that once plagued him: He had been afraid of dying.
“There was no peace. There was no meaning in life,” Pavan said in an interview in Nepal. “It compelled me to ask the question, ‘What am I here for? And how long? And what happens after I leave this earth?'” [Read more…]
By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director
Transitions and changes are not the same. That’s important to keep in mind when considering the Southern Baptist Convention.
The 2018 SBC was a watershed convention for Southern Baptists. Most of the national news related to Southern Baptists was not good prior to the convention. It would be easy to gravitate toward the negatives, but I choose to focus on the positives.
And that’s where transition and change come in. [Read more…]
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON — Religious restrictions continue to spread globally in Pew Research Center’s ninth annual study of laws and social hostilities in 198 countries, although most countries still rank low to moderate on a study scale researchers devised. [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: The “Summer of ’67” movie screening will take place June 29-July 5 at Regal Hollywood 27 at 100 Oaks Mall in Nashville. Tickets can be purchased on site.
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
SPRINGFIELD — Christian filmmakers Sharon and Fred Wilharm have learned a lot over the past several years as they have directed and produced seven movies and numerous smaller projects.
Sharon noted that for a long while she wanted to go into “ministry,” but God never opened that door. “Then I finally figured out that filmmaking was my ministry. That’s when I really got serious about writing and directing and doing it well.”
Fred and Sharon work as a team, taking the idea from concept to paper, and then on to the screen. While they joke that their first movie needs to remain “locked up,” they have had success, especially with their last two movies, “The Good Book” and “Providence.” [Read more…]
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON — Homosexuality, premarital sex, divorce, marijuana and pornography are approved by a growing percentage of Americans, Gallup found in an annual poll including nearly 20 behaviors placed on its morality scale. [Read more…]
By Tom Strode
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an important, if not wide-ranging, victory for religious liberty Monday (June 4) in its continuing faceoff with sexual liberty. [Read more…]
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
PHILADELPHIA — The Bible tops coffee, social media and sweets as a daily necessity for only 16 percent of the population, according to new research commissioned by the American Bible Society (ABS). [Read more…]
