Pastors’ wives overall are happy with their roles, but it’s imperative that they build a support network outside the church for seasons of conflict, a study of pastors’ wives found. Amy Stumpf, professor of religion and society at California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., and a pastor’s wife herself, was stirred to study Southern Baptist […]
Jim Burton had no idea some odd footsteps were the first sign of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). “Normally when you walk, you have a heel to toe cadence. It’s no big deal,” said Burton, who has spent his career in Baptist work. “But I was walking like a horse. My right foot was hitting the […]
An estimated 35 million people in the world are Deaf, and each day 750 of them die without knowing Jesus. With no Deaf-centric theological education available, some Deaf Southern Baptists called to reach those who share their heart language have been unable to meet IMB requirements for career missionary status. The launch of a Deaf […]
W.A. Criswell’s noted expository preaching is being honored in academic chairs at four Southern Baptist seminaries to model for new generations the verse-by-verse teaching that led thousands to Christ during his lifetime. The W.A. Criswell chair for expository preaching was installed at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in January and was established at Southern Baptist Theological […]
Mandisa, winner of this year’s Grammy for best contemporary Christian music album, explained on Facebook why she chose not to attend the event that was replete with expressions of immorality. Mandisa, honored for her “Overcomer” release, cited “the allure of pleasure, the passion to have things and the pompous sense of superiority,” words from a […]
Golfer Hunter Mahan made headlines for demonstrating what a new generation of fathers has made increasingly common: prioritizing family over career. As noted by columnist Jason Gay of The Wall Street Journal, no one really remembers who won the Canadian Open this year. They just remember the player who didn’t even finish because he flew […]
Challenging days, both in the culture and in the church, call for an unprecedented faithfulness in prayer, Executive Committee president Frank Page told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Houston June 11. “Most everyone knows of my most recent efforts in these past months to persuade Scouting leaders to maintain a policy […]
Cross Church in northwest Arkansas is launching in August what pastor Ronnie Floyd sees as a model for addressing the “experience gap” in ministry preparation: the Cross Church School of Ministry. “The purpose of this new school is not to replace what our universities and seminaries do by way of theological education but to complement […]
In another effort to force Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini to recant his faith, prison officials in Tehran have placed him in solitary confinement, something the American Center for Law and Justice calls “perhaps his most grave situation since his imprisonment last fall.” Abedini, a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, has served time in solitary confinement […]
George Beverly Shea, the longtime soloist for Billy Graham Crusades, died April 16 after a brief illness. He was 104.