On the Sunday After Renee Good’s Killing, Minnesotans Grieve Through Worship and Song
Worshippers took a moment to pause, mourn, and sing, even as they continued to organize resistance efforts against ICE's escalated presence in Minneapolis.
Church & Ministries
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Most pastors say leader development, ‘people’s apathy’ are issues they need to address: survey
Developing leadership, connecting with the unchurched and tackling apathy are among the top needs that pastors believe need to be addressed, according to newly released data from Lifeway Research.
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Former Assemblies of God leader George Wood dies aged 80
Wood died after a four-month battle with stage 4 cancer.
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NEWS DIGEST: McRaney lawsuit will continue; Krol court appearance postponed | Baptist Press
McRaney lawsuit to continue after summary judgment denied; Krol court appearance postponed,
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FIRST-PERSON: 5 ways to pray for your pastor | Baptist Press
FAIRVIEW, Texas (BP) – Many years ago, someone asked Charles Spurgeon why he was so successful. His response? “Because my people pray for me.”
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UK resident gets Texas-sized welcome, baptism after watching services online | Baptist Press
WEATHERFORD, Texas (BP) – U.K. resident Samantha (Sammy) Scott has Texas-themed decor throughout her home in Southampton, about 80 miles southwest of London. Now she has Texas-sized memories of her baptism at Greenwood Baptist Church – the culmination of a spiritual journey that started at a Hill Country dude ranch…
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Your Pastor Cares When You Don’t Care
Apathy ranked as the single biggest pastoral concern in 2022.
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Pastor Tavner Smith announces time off to spend ‘with God’ after staffers quit over affair rumors
Weeks after a video surfaced online allegedly showing him kissing a woman who is not his wife and multiple members of his staff quit, Pastor Tavner Smith of Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has announced he will take a few weeks off work to get counseling and “spend time with God.”
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Austria’s Catholic Church reports decline in membership, rise in income
A total of 72,055 people formally left the Church in Austria in 2021.
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Promise Keepers leader denounces porn use: ‘God didn’t create you to be that way’
The leader of the men’s ministry organization Promise Keepers recently denounced the usage of pornography, stating that “God didn’t create you to be that way.”
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FIRST-PERSON: Grateful for my Baptist brothers and sisters | Baptist Press
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – God called me into full-time Christian service on a mission trip in 1977. Our church in Forest Park, Ga., had commissioned a team to travel to Sells, Ariz., in partnership with our Home Mission Board (HMB), now the North American Mission Board (NAMB), to do…
