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May 13, 2021
Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — The Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists (COSBE) will host the annual Sunday Morning Worship on June 13 prior to the beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention, which starts June 15 in Nashville. This service will be held at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church, Hermitage (3475 Lebanon Pike) where Poly Rouse […]
May 12, 2021
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The four current candidates for president of the Southern Baptist Convention took part in an online forum on May 4, sharing their testimonies as well as their thoughts on the future of the SBC. The discussion was hosted by Leadership Pipeline, a fellowship of Southern Baptist pastors under the […]
May 10, 2021
By Jennifer Davis Rash The Alabama Baptist MARION, Ala. — The Judson College faithful fought hard for five months trying to save the school, but in the end it just wasn’t enough. During its regularly scheduled meeting on May 6, the board of trustees pulled the trigger on what they had hoped wouldn’t happen — […]
April 28, 2021
By Diana Chandler Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Joe Wright expresses a heart for the “smallest of these,” churches numbering 75 or fewer in Sunday attendance and comprising two-thirds of Southern Baptist congregations. “The time has come for us to step up and decide that the ‘smallest of these’ is not only important but essential for […]
April 28, 2021
By Myriah Snyder IMB news office RICHMOND — International Mission Board leaders are celebrating a monumental milestone in Southern Baptist life: On March 31, 2021, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering surpassed $5 billion total gifts since collection to send missionaries to China began in 1888. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an annual offering collected […]
April 20, 2021
By Margaret Colson ASBP writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Emerging from more than a year of communications challenges and innovations as a result of the global pandemic, more than 25 leaders of Southern Baptist media outlets, including the Baptist and Reflector in Tennessee, gathered April 19 for the 2021 annual meeting of the Association of State […]
April 15, 2021
Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee announced Thursday that the 2021 Annual Meeting and Send Conference are being moved to the Nashville Music City Center. The annual meeting was originally scheduled to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Ronnie Floyd, president of the SBC Executive Committee, […]
April 15, 2021
By Diana Chandler Baptist Press WASHINGTON — Church members are in the minority for the first time in at least eight decades, with just 47 percent identifying with a congregation, Gallup said in a poll released in late March. The number was 70 percent in 1999. A growth in adults with no religious preference and […]
April 12, 2021
By Myriah Snyder IMB senior writer/editor International Mission Board leaders are celebrating a monumental milestone in Southern Baptist life: On March 31, 2021, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® surpassed $5 billion total gifts since collection to send missionaries to China began in 1888. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an annual offering collected by believers […]
April 1, 2021
By Aaron Earls LifeWay Christian Resources writer NASHVILLE — Working through a time of grief. Exhausted from what they’ve been through. Excited about what’s to come. As pastors prepare for Easter this year, they may have more insight on how Jesus’ followers felt leading up to the first Resurrection Sunday. And much like those early gatherings […]
March 19, 2021
By Aaron Earls LifeWay Christian Resources NASHVILLE — As legislatures in Washington, D.C. and across the country discuss issues surrounding individuals who identify as a gender different from their biological sex, a clear majority of U.S. Protestant pastors see such gender fluidity as morally wrong. In a study from Nashville-based Lifeway Research, around 3 in […]
March 17, 2021
Baptist Press RICHMOND — The International Mission Board’s Nehemiah Teams program is providing opportunities for students to do something eternal with their “gap year.” More and more students are choosing to take a year to pursue other interests – travel, experiencing new cultures, gaining life experience, volunteering – before starting college. Nehemiah Teams offers summer […]