Don Kirkland

According to a recent poll conducted jointly by LifeWay Research and the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, a majority of Americans ? though only a slight majority ? do not believe that Christians are too much... Continue Reading »

A non-traditional student with her sights set on a career in marriage and family therapy has received the 10th anniversary Horace B. Sims Jr. Award for excellent achievement in the field of Christian studies at North Greenville University. Tammy... Continue Reading »

A new initiative for South Carolina Baptists, ?Experience Kingdom Life,? was approved at the April 14-15 meeting of the convention's Executive Board at White Oak Conference Center. It will be unveiled at, and will be the theme for, the... Continue Reading »

The national convention of the Church Prayer Leaders Network, an organization whose vision is 'to equip every church in every city to become an effective, joyful ?house of prayer for all nations,??? is coming to South Carolina for the... Continue Reading »

The thousands of Southern Baptist ministers and their spouses ? who have discovered, to their disappointment and dismay, that their retirement incomes sometimes fall short of meeting minimum requirements for daily living ? have for decades had a faithful... Continue Reading »

In her benedictory address as executive director of Woman's Missionary Union of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Evelyn Blount praised the women attending the annual state meeting March 14-15 at Fairview Baptist Church in Greer, telling them, ?It's not... Continue Reading »

It is generally agreed by scholars that Gordon's Calvary, a rocky outcrop outside the walls of the city of Jerusalem ? the word ?Calvary? meaning ?place of the skull ? and the Garden Tomb, which is located approximately 100... Continue Reading »

The commemoration of Holy Week ? the seven days before Easter Sunday ? is of extraordinary importance to followers of Jesus, who view it with a sense of reverence, of wonder, of gratitude as the most sacred time of... Continue Reading »

For all of his preeminence among the prophets of Israel (he and Moses joined Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration), Elijah remains a puzzling figure who lived an amazing life of faith and obedience, but also was prone to... Continue Reading »

Jim Austin, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention for the past nine months, and Alabama evangelist Junior Hill, ?who has preached to our hearts time and time again through the years,? brought messages of challenge and encouragement... Continue Reading »

What prompted Jesus to change neighborhoods ? to pick up and move from his hometown of Nazareth, which is located in the heartland of the region of Galilee, to Capernaum, a small fishing village nestled against the northwestern shores... Continue Reading »

The chartered passenger boat carried its load of two crewmen and nine Southern Baptist newspaper editors smoothly out into the fresh waters of the Sea of Galilee before our captain cut the engines, allowing the vessel to sway gently... Continue Reading »