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NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving was 5.05 percent below the budget goal in February, while designated giving was just over 7 percent below the same number from last year. Southern Baptists gave just over $18 million through CP during the fifth month of the fiscal year. The budget target…
Microcredentialing—bite-sized learning modules—is emerging as a transformative approach to theological education, making it more accessible to under-resourced Christians seeking practical and flexible ways to engage in learning. By offering formal credentials in smaller, stackable units, microcredentialing provides an innovative alternative to traditional theological degrees, which often require significant time and financial commitment.
BAR NUNN, Wyo. – Trent Fetherston had a reputation – the kind of reputation a man will get in an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town like Bar Nunn, Wyoming, when he spends what seems like thousands of consecutive happy hours with a drink in his hand and a chip on his…
The statement is signed by 11 Christian LGBTQ groups representing tens of thousands of constituents and roughly 5,000 congregations.
MARBLE, N.C. — Fred Bruner Lunsford, an influential Baptist pastor, ministry leader, evangelist and World War II veteran from western North Carolina who served the Lord for more than 70 years, died peacefully at his home on Saturday, March 1, at age 99, six days before his 100th birthday.
PHOENIX – David Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists since 2013, announced his intention to retire at the Convention Council meeting March 4 in Phoenix. He said he intends to continue in his present position until the election of his successor.
SAN DIEGO – Imagine taking a physics class in a language you’re still learning to speak.
For the past 25 years, Southern Baptists have officially banned women pastors. That hasn’t stopped churches from having women serve in that role.
For centuries, the Church has had a complicated—let’s be honest, often problematic—relationship with women. While the Bible is filled with the names,
Months after agreeing to pay former member and intern Tyler Bates 2 million to settle a lawsuit in which he alleges he was sexually abused as a teenager by a staff member while he slept, Grace
