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WEEK OF PRAYER: Helping Copenhagen’s artists & atheists visualize faith

This year"s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention is Dec. 4-11 with the theme of "His heart, His hands, His voice -- I am Southern Baptist missions" from Acts 1:8. Each year"s Lottie Moon... Continue Reading »

Indy’s ‘Send’ initiative launched by NAMB

Pastor John Newland said he"d go anywhere -- Asia, Africa, the Middle East, wherever the Lord led him. A life-changing mission trip to the Middle East had made him restless to make a difference.... Continue Reading »

Indy church plant buoyed by partnerships

Church planter Tony Manning can do a lot with a church of 60.... Continue Reading »

Church partners help make The Pointe in Indy

Out of a job and quickly running out of hope, Daniel Pfeiffer didn"t know where to turn.... Continue Reading »

DADT repeal examined by chaplains panel

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary"s Institute for Faith and the Public Square hosted its third major conference, examining the tension chaplains experience between exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and religion while acknowledging the restrictions that often... Continue Reading »

SPORTS: CBU sweeps NCCAA soccer tourney

California Baptist University soccer teams swept the National Christian College Athletic Association"s national title games Dec. 3, with the men"s team beating Geneva College 2-1 and the women"s team defeating Trinity International University 2-1 in Kissimmee, Fla.... Continue Reading »

1 in 10 youth involved in some form of ‘sexting’

About 10 percent of youth ages 10-17 have participated in sending or receiving a sexually explicit or sexually suggestive picture of themselves or others electronically, according to a new survey that is the most detailed yet in examining the... Continue Reading »

FROM THE SEMINARIES: NOBTS, MBTS, SEBTS, GGBTS stories

"From the Seminaries" includes news releases of interest as written and edited from Southern Baptist seminaries.... Continue Reading »

CP: 11.14% below last year’s pace

As of Nov. 30, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program Allocation Budget totaled $28,427,727.02, or $3,563,526.89 behind the $31,991,253.91 received at the end of November 2010.... Continue Reading »

WORLD AIDS DAY: in Swaziland, 26 percent are infected

He has heard all these reasons for his suffering from various elders and has even been warned not to visit a clinic or accept antiretroviral (ARV) medication, or he will die.

The presentation, however, tells him that his HIV is... Continue Reading »

WORLD AIDS DAY: In Nellie’s memory …

Southern Baptists are making a life-changing difference for people living with HIV/AIDS... Continue Reading »

Billy Graham has pneumonia, "responding well"

Evangelist Billy Graham is "responding well" to antibiotic treatment for pneumonia and remains in stable condition, a doctor at his hospital said Thursday.... Continue Reading »