The Week of American Idolatry
For this issue of A Public Witness, we virtually trek deep in the heart of Texas to see how “God and country” too often looks more like country as god at Prestonwood Baptist Church.
Church & Ministries
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S.C. pastor D.J. Horton to be nominated for SBC Pastors’ Conference president | Baptist Press
MOORE, S.C. (BP) – A Spartanburg-area pastor will be nominated to serve as president of the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors Conference.
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Eleven Students and Missionaries Die in Tanzania Crash
Youth with a Mission, a global evangelism ministry, is mourning the loss of 11 of its students and staff who died in a bus crash on Saturday in Arusha, Tanzania. Julie McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Y...
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UMC’s Proposed Budget Will Be the Smallest in 40 Years Due to Mass Exodus of Churches
The United Methodist Church may soon approve the lowest budget for the mainline Protestant denomination in four decades due to the thousands of congregations that disaffiliated over the past couple ...
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Pastors Must Solve ‘real problem’ of ‘low-propensity Christian voter,’ Activist Says
Working to address the real problem of millions of Evangelical voters failing to vote in elections, a longtime political activist is urging pastors to mobilize their faith ahead of the 2024 ...
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FIRST-PERSON: Grieving with hope | Baptist Press
Grief. I’m not sure that I ever really understood grief until the last few months. It is one of those emotions you can read about, study or discuss but can’t really understand until you personally experience it. After losing my wife to pancreatic cancer seven months ago, I’m still coming…
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Tennessee pastor Jared Moore to be nominated for SBC president | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – Oklahoma pastor Dusty Deevers is planning to nominate Tennessee pastor Jared Moore for SBC President at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting. Moore is the senior pastor of Cumberland Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, Tenn.
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‘Bible in a Year with Jack Graham’ Tops Apple’s Podcast Charts amid Rising Biblical Illiteracy
In a significant achievement for faith-based digital content, the podcast series, Bible in a Year with Jack Graham, has hit the No 1 position on Apple s charts for religious podcasts despite growing ...
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The Little Known Story of the First Anglican Female Preachers
The Church of England first appointed female preachers during the First World War. This is the story ...
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FIRST-PERSON: The Law Amendment is UNDERSTANDABLE, but UNNECESSARY, UNCLEAR and potentially the UNRAVELING of the SBC | Baptist Press
At our annual meeting in 2023, SBC messengers passed the first approval of a constitutional amendment (what’s come to be known as the “Law Amendment”), which states that the Convention will only deem a church to be in friendly cooperation with the Convention which: “Affirms, appoints, or employs only men…
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Historic Mother Bethel AME Church Suffers at Least $15K in Damages after Vandalism
A local event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, helped to raise funds for the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which recently suffered what could amount to tens of thousands of ...
