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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers working in Summerton, S.C., last week helped save the area's only affordable housing community from permanent closure. The apartment complex took on more than two feet of floodwater during historic flooding in the region Oct. 4.
Playboy's decision to remove nude photos from the U.S. print edition of its magazine, pornography opponents say, in no way suggests the company is moving away from the objectification and exploitation of women.
A "first-ever" conference by evangelicals on the subject of transgenderism will be held Oct. 5 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
A Missouri high school is in the national spotlight after a transgender student -- born male but identifying as female -- requested permission to use the girls' locker rooms and restrooms this year. On Aug. 31, about 150 students walked out of classes to protest allowing the student to use female facilities.
At least 10,000 people gathered at the South Carolina State House for Stand with God, Pro-Family Rally, where Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Rick Perry and U S senators spoke about ...
Hurricane Katrina's onslaught gave rise to a heightened capability of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. "The disaster relief teams of the SBC are second to none," said former SBC President Fred Luter, pastor of New Orleans' Franklin Avenue Baptist Church for nearly three decades. "I don't just say that for what I've heard or read about. I say that because of what I've seen firsthand."
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is counting blessings rather than losses and leaning into the future with anticipation. "Our God is a redeemer," NOBTS President Chuck Kelley said, "and He is able to take any circumstance we are in and, out of it, bring glory to His name and good to His people."
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina still share their stories, still experience the trauma in "mind & heart," New Orleans pastor David Crosby writes. "Our memories are not all pleasant, but they are powerful," he writes. "And they continue to shape the people that we are and will become."
Chuck Register, a Gulf Coast pastor when Hurricane Katrina struck, voices a new philosophy of ministry. “So many things that I thought were critical in ministry pre-storm,” Register says, “seemed to be really insignificant post-storm.”
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, New Orleans pastor Fred Luter writes, was "a test of our willingness to come back and rebuild. … We will never be the city we had before."
