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2025 Committee on Nominations Report Released

(Editor’s note: This was published in our June magazine prior to the SBC 2025 in Dallas.) The SBC Committee on Nominations has released its 2025 report in advance of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting to be held June 10-11.... Continue Reading »

Baptist Courier Receives 6 S.C. Press Association Awards

The Baptist Courier staff received six awards at the South Carolina Press Association’s April banquet in Columbia: • 1st Place, Faith Reporting: Mary Margaret Flook, for the article: “When Missions is Mundane and Knowing God is More Thrilling.” •... Continue Reading »

Resources for Further Reading and Thinking about Gender and Sexuality

Books: • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (Revised edition) (Crossway, 2021), edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem. This book has long been the gold standard in unpacking complementarianism from all perspectives — biblical,... Continue Reading »

Resources for Further Reading and Thinking about Gender and Sexuality

Books: • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (Revised edition) (Crossway, 2021), edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem. This book has long been the gold standard in unpacking complementarianism from all perspectives — biblical,... Continue Reading »

Hunter Baker Authors New Book — Postliberal Protestants: Baptists Between Obergefell and Christian Nationalism

We asked Hunter Baker, author of Postliberal Protestants: Baptists Between Obergefell and Christian Nationalism, a few questions about his recently published book. The Baptist Courier: Why did you write this book? Baker: I wrote my first book, The End... Continue Reading »

Finn to Be Nominated to Serve as SBC Recording Secretary

Louisiana pastor Jay Adkins says he plans to nominate current SBC Recording Secretary Nathan Finn for another term when Southern Baptists gather in Dallas, June 10-11. “Dr. Finn is imminently qualified to serve in this area. He is a... Continue Reading »

Two from S.C. Named to SBC Registration Committee

SBC President Clint Pressley has announced that Jonathan Coleman will chair the Registration Committee for the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas in June. Coleman, pastor of Harvey Baptist Church in Stephenville, Texas, was a member of the committee... Continue Reading »

Call for Nominations for SCBaptist Boards and Committees

Nominations to be considered at the 2025 SCBaptist Convention Annual Meeting are due no later than midnight on May 31. The nomination process utilizes the DocuSign platform. Once submitted, the forms are automatically routed to the appropriate Convention staff.... Continue Reading »

SCBaptist’s First Women’s ONE Night Event

Over 16 churches partnered together to launch SCBaptist’s first Women’s ONE Night event on April 12 at Brushy Creek Baptist Church in Taylors. According to SCBaptist, ONE Night is a “grassroots mass evangelism event designed to engage a specific... Continue Reading »

Lawtonville Baptists Celebrating 250 Years of Ministry

Two prior pastors — Lamar Holley, who spoke at the church’s bicentennial observance in 1975, and Van Pigate, who served in the early 1980s — brought keynote messages for Lawtonville Baptist Church’s 250th anniversary celebration March 2. During the... Continue Reading »

God Working Amidst Table Rock and Persimmon Ridge Fires: Churches and Communities Gather to Pray for Rain and Serve Those in Need

More than 100 people and at least 10 local church pastors gathered in the parking lot of “Hometown,” (a grocery store that no longer exists) to pray for rain. According to officials, more than 10,000 acres have burned in... Continue Reading »

16 Kids Respond at School to the Good News

Sixteen children from Millbrook Elementary School, Aiken, came to know Jesus this spring. They heard the gospel from a group of Good News Club volunteers from Millbrook Baptist Church. “The response has been wonderful. The children have been great”... Continue Reading »