The Baptist Courier

When the coal mines of Lynch, Ky., closed in the 1970s, a town lost its major industry, and a community was left in crisis. That crisis continues today for the retired miners and their families, according to Steven Ruff,... Continue Reading »

Parson's Pantry has selected four new board members to lead and serve in the Gaffney-based ministry of providing financial assistance to needy pastors, pastors? widows and married ministerial students. Two pastors and two business people have joined the board... Continue Reading »

In August hundreds of freshmen will converge on the Charleston Southern University campus, bringing mountains of belongings and years of information, opinions, experiences and ideas about life. However, there will be a common thread among them ? a summer... Continue Reading »

Sometimes it's tough to concentrate during the Lord's Supper. Our minds tend to multi-task or even to zone-out when we sit in silence, during our safe, predictable observances of this ordinance. At the Lord's Supper (the real, actual one),... Continue Reading »

Jesus is being taken to the hill where He will be crucified. Completely undeserving of death, He is to be executed along with two others. Jesus has been sentenced to death unjustly. He has committed no punishable offense. Further,... Continue Reading »

North Greenville University students will cover the globe this summer as mission and outreach teams prepare to serve in more than 30 countries and six continents.... Continue Reading »

Following a tragedy in 2008, Andrew Bowen slipped into a depression. He struggled with the faith he had been raised to live and believe, and he started searching for a different faith. But not, as he told a reporter,... Continue Reading »

>Every state that has voted on the issue of marriage at the ballot has affirmed the traditional definition of marriage being between a man and a woman.... Continue Reading »

>When Ella Creel heard children were dying for lack of clean water, she knew something had to be done.... Continue Reading »

Paige Patterson challenged graduates never to forget their calling nor lose their vision of the exalted and holy God during Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary"s spring commencement May 4.... Continue Reading »

>Mother"s Day is a particularly sensitive time in many congregations, and pastors and church leaders often don"t even know it.... Continue Reading »

I told God I would go anywhere, I also asked that it would never be Nineveh.... Continue Reading »