ALBANY, N.Y. (BP) – Responding to culture’s toughest questions about the faith was the focus of the first-ever apologetics conference presented by the Baptist Convention of New York (BCNY), April 24-25, in Albany. More than 250 attended.
According to some, especially in the secular media, funeral arrangements are being made for the once lauded Southern Baptist Convention. Mission drift has morphed into personal rancor. Division, distrust and deception seem to be the rule rather than the exception.
Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled a “crisis of sexual abuse” in the denomination through methods such as intimidating whistleblowers into silence and exonerating churches with credible allegations of negligence of sexual abuse victims, according to Russell Moore, the former leader of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
NASHVILLE (BP) – SBC President J.D. Greear led the third and final Wednesday sessions of focused prayer for the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting today (June 9) at 2 p.m. CDT.
A yearslong effort to rebuild St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, the only church destroyed during Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, has raised over 95 million The ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) – In a called meeting of the Ohio Mission Council, Ohio Baptists called Jeremy Westbrook as executive director-treasurer of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio. Westbrook will begin the role Aug. 1.
Men and women who once lived and identified as part of the LGBT community are confident that a rainbow revival is at hand as approximately 200 marched in the Freedom March over the weekend and shared testimonies of how Jesus transformed their lives.
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) – Heartbreaking images from India show human suffering on a scale beyond anything most people have ever seen as the COVID-19 pandemic races through a nation of 1.3 billion people.
TIGERVILLE, S.C. (BP) -- Historians call the final quarter of the 19th century the Gilded Age, a term originally coined by Mark Twain. It was an era characterized by unprecedented industrialization, spurred on especially by the expansion of the railroad industry. It was the age of tycoons, monopolies, mass immigration,…
Churches in California are celebrating their victory for religious freedom after a religious freedom legal group secured settlements requiring the state to pay 2 1 million in attorneys fees to a ...