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National WMU President Linda Cooper has named the search committee for the mission organization's next executive director and requested prayer for the committee's work. Wanda Lee, who has led WMU since 2000, announced in January her intention to retire.
Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, underscores the passion for religious liberty and freedom of conscience that "runs in the veins of Baptists."
The Florida Baptist Convention has sent an additional $500,000 in Cooperative Program funds to the Southern Baptist Convention, representing 51 percent of the budget overage from Florida Baptist churches to the state convention's 2015 budget of $28.8 million.
If traditional marriage proponents get their way, 2016 could be the year Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) "fix" is overturned and the state reaffirms, among other freedoms, the right of business owners not to participate in same-sex weddings if doing so violates their religious convictions.
Departure comes after the cult-like group’s founder, Wayne Jolley, was accused of spiritual and sexual abuse.
Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States drew critique at the first Republican presidential debate since Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
On average, 42 percent of worshippers at churches launched since 2008 previously never attended church or hadn't attended in many years, LifeWay Research reports in an analysis of 843 such churches from 17 denominations and church planting networks.
An entrepreneur with a fruitful career using business as a platform for the Gospel played a key role in a mission trip to Central Asia by nine students from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary this fall.
The men at Bethel Baptist Church in Greenfield, Tenn., reach out to the unchurched men in their community each autumn by showing off their culinary skills at a wild game supper, preparing turkey, deer, raccoon, crappie, catfish, rabbit, duck and other critters. It's only one outreach of the small church that promotes missions and gives 20 percent to the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program.
Researchers should define Evangelicals by their beliefs, not by their political demographics, the church they attend or what they self-identify as, the NEA and LifeWay Research have determined
