Erich Bridges

How far do you have to travel to find some of the most spiritually lost people groups in the world?... Continue Reading »

In Syria, Muslims seeking to pray in some cities are dodging shells lobbed at their mosques by the military.... Continue Reading »

Minutes after his resounding 76-0 election as International Mission Board president by IMB trustees, Tom Elliff vowed to challenge Southern Baptists to engage all of the estimated 3,800 people groups worldwide that still have not been touched by the... Continue Reading »

Tom Elliff, longtime Oklahoma pastor, Southern Baptist Convention leader and former missionary, is the unanimous recommendation of a 15-member trustee search committee to be the next president of the International Mission Board. The nomination of Elliff ? who served... Continue Reading »

Perhaps the saddest manifestation of the antisocial disease that now permeates our culture is not rudeness or violence, but the indifference that leads so many neighbors to ignore each other's existence. Is this the ?life, liberty and the pursuit... Continue Reading »

Words are so last-millennium, dude. Children of the digital age are growing up with a different kind of literacy, we are told. They learn to understand the world not through complete sentences, paragraphs and books, but through ever-changing sounds,... Continue Reading »

In response to reduced giving during the current economic downturn, International Mission Board trustees approved suspending new appointments to the International Service Corps and Masters programs during their May 19-20 meeting in Denver.... Continue Reading »

High school kids used to memorize that line from Coleridge's 'the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.? In the poem, sailors go mad with thirst under a scorching sun as their cursed vessel sits, day after day, ?idle as a... Continue Reading »

Stock markets are tanking. Banks are struggling to survive. Credit has all but dried up. A worldwide recession looms as overseas economies react to the U.S. financial mess.... Continue Reading »

I agree with the philosophers who say it takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God, the Author of creation.... Continue Reading »

Despite difficult economic conditions, Southern Baptists gave $150.4 million to the 2007 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions to support the work of more than 5,300 missionaries worldwide.... Continue Reading »

Suppose the dollars in your next paycheck lost almost half their value. Would you be able to pay the bills ? much less buy anything extra? That's the discouraging reality some Southern Baptist missionaries face as the U.S. dollar... Continue Reading »