JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Scott Connell and other organizers of the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference felt that 2026 could bring around 500 attendees to the annual event. That was big dreaming, considering that three years ago it was canceled due to lack of interest. The conference came back in…
"With war everything is lost," said Pope Francis.
Ed Litton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, announced Tuesday he will break with tradition and not seek a second term in the top convention role.
Bill Townes to serve four months as interim SBC EC CFO; Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief allocates $70,000 for Ukrainians
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP)—Willy Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Fla., will be nominated by Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist, for the president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer at the SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
A megachurch in Alabama has voted to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church several months before the denomination will hold a legislative meeting that might lead to a schism over theological differences.
No two churches are identical, and no two churches approach their search for a new pastor the same way either. While most churches follow the same general five phases of the pastor search process, they differ in how they complete those phases.
SARALAND, Ala. (BP)—Citing a growing desire to develop a strategy to “bridge our divides and bring about a Gospel-driven unity and reconciliation” and the need to lead as a “pastor rather than from the office of president,” SBC president Ed Litton announced Tuesday (Mar. 1) that he would not seek…
Notable African American civil rights activist Frederick Douglass did not see people as “black or white,” but rather “made in the image of God,” according to a professional historical impersonator.
SAN ANTONIO—A group of Southern Baptists of Texas Convention pastors and leaders attended the second-annual Arabic Baptist Pastor’s Conference held Feb. 15-18.
Across the U.S., houses of worship own thousands of acres of land to do as they please. Now, thanks to new grants, congregations in Atlanta, New York,
