The Baptist Courier

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

>Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary opened its new 3,500-seat chapel with a daylong celebration Dec. 1, including a ribbon-cutting, dedication chapel service, baptisms and a free Christmas concert.... Continue Reading »

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an evangelical church"s plea to overturn New York City"s ban on renting public schools for religious worship services.... Continue Reading »

Hugh Freeze, who led Arkansas State"s football team to its best season in years and whose Christian testimony has made headlines, has been named the new head coach at Ole Miss.... Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »

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

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

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 »

The ninth installment in Walmart and Procter & Gamble"s Family Movie Night initiative airs Friday on NBC when "Game of Your Life" -- a "techy" drama -- is broadcast at 8 Eastern.... Continue Reading »

Messengers to the annual meeting of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention showed commitment to the priorities established by the Southern Baptist Convention"s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.... Continue Reading »