The Baptist Courier

South Carolina Baptist Convention messengers on Nov. 15 approved resolutions calling for transparency in public education and requesting that elected officials ensure that religious liberty ?for all Americans? is protected. Messengers also approved a resolution encouraging South Carolina Baptists... Continue Reading »

In 2008, Brad Atkins sat on the back row of the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention and listened to a sermon by then-president Eddie Leopard, pastor of Millbrook Baptist Church, Aiken. ?I wasn't concerned with the... Continue Reading »

During the Wednesday morning business session of the Nov. 15-16 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, messengers adopted a pared-down budget of $28.6 million for 2012. The spending plan reflects sweeping changes in how South Carolina Baptists... Continue Reading »

With the approval of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report, messengers to the 191st annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 15-16, in Columbia, charted a course to redirect diminishing resources to... Continue Reading »

Joe Mack, the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s former director of the office of public policy, was awarded the annual E.A. McDowell Award for individual public service. Mack and his wife, Beverly, are members of Shandon Baptist Church, Columbia. The... Continue Reading »

I have read the various letters regarding the study of a name change for the Southern Baptist Convention. We?re so tied to our 'southern? traditions that we have forgotten that we have churches in every state in the United... Continue Reading »

It doesn't get any easier to get involved in starting new churches than through Send North America, the North American Mission Board's church-planting emphasis aimed at mobilizing churches.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Youth Ministers? Network got grilled by an atheist at their annual meeting Nov. 14 at First Baptist Church, Columbia. Not really. But it appeared that way for a solid half-hour during their morning session when... Continue Reading »

Tim Elmore, founder and president of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta-based leadership development non-profit, makes maximum use of the adage that ?a picture is worth a thousand words.?... Continue Reading »

Laurie Register, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Woman's Missionary Union, summed up the general feeling following a Human Exploitation Symposium held in Columbia on Oct. 27: ?It's really beginning to dawn on me just how big this is,... Continue Reading »

In her mid-50s, after raising three daughters, Patsy Lollis thought she was done being a parent. But when unfortunate circumstances left her 13-year-old grandson with no one to care for him, Lollis once again took on a parental role.... Continue Reading »

Anderson University's College of Christian Studies is preparing to launch the John A. Broadus Lectures on Preaching as an annual event for students and church leaders, honoring one of the nation's pioneering teachers of preaching.... Continue Reading »