DALLAS (BP) — A Nov. 24 update during a worship service asked members of First Baptist Church to give toward its missions offering that will also go toward the rebuild of its historic sanctuary damaged in a July fire.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) – Church leaders from the central states engaged 12,000 hours of training, teaching and worship at the three-day Midwest Leadership Summit meeting in Springfield January 23-25. In multiple plenary sessions led by national SBC speakers and church-planting practitioners, and in 80 breakout sessions, almost 1,000 leaders shared…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (BP) – Six-hour sessions of chemotherapy, four dozen radiation appointments and countless medical procedures. This has been Larry Brister’s new normal for two years.
New details emerged this week regarding the unexpected death of a Presbyterian pastor in Texas who died last October at age 44
The Executive Committee, which oversees the SBC's operations between meetings of the convention's governing body, has been without a permanent leader since 2021.
An unnamed candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has withdrawn from the selection process to fill the leadership position that has been vacant since 2021
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) – Two days of snow turned to rain and ice threatened, but the weather failed to stop those headed to the 2024 Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield. With 1,000 people from nine Baptist conventions covering 12 states signed up for the three-day conference, registration was brisk at…
The Progressive National Baptist Convention, the denominational home of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., publicly endorsed calls for a ceasefire in Israel-Gaza on Monday.
An attorney for International House of Prayer Kansas City publicly sparred online with noted attorney and Billy Graham s grandson, Boz Tchividjian, over the strength of abuse allegations against the ...
Amid media reports of staff disgruntled with a hiring policy change, the international Evangelical foster and immigrant resettlement charity Bethany Christian Services has confirmed that it only ...
Revelations about the decadeslong abuse by a prominent SBC leader have led to fears that the denomination's sex-abuse reforms are doomed to fail.
