The Baptist Courier

>With the goal of keeping roadside crosses in place in the face of a federal court order, the Utah Highway Patrol Association has removed the state"s highway patrol logo from more than a dozen crosses statewide -- and reiterated... Continue Reading »

Quake victims are ?on the brink of great suffering? because of their conditions, the international relief organization Baptist Global Response reports.... Continue Reading »

The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention has deployed two volunteers to Thailand to train Baptist representatives in the Asian country how to properly and safely clean out a home inundated with floodwater and to apply mold remediation to the... Continue Reading »

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention will be Dec. 4-11 with the theme of “His heart, His hands, His voice — I am Southern Baptist missions” from Acts 1:8. Each... Continue Reading »

Many Journeymen -- recent college graduates serving as short-term IMB missionaries -- have found creative ways to rub shoulders with people, develop relationships and have spiritual conversations.... Continue Reading »

Faith Hill. Steve Jobs. Babe Ruth. They all have one thing in common. They were adopted. There are an estimated 107,000 children and youth waiting in the United States’ foster-care system to be adopted, according to the U.S. Department... Continue Reading »

"The Love Dare," a devotional book for couples based on biblical themes from the movie "Fireproof," continues to be a bestseller three years after the film opened.... Continue Reading »

As I"ve said, for many families, Thanksgiving will involve a family reunion of sorts -- a family reunion in which old wounds and grudges may be present, buried just beneath the surface.... Continue Reading »

All in all, we Americans have much for which to be thankful, and we should be reminded of how the Lord blessed our nation at various points in our history.... Continue Reading »

I made a vow to God that I would never coach a kid who did not hear the plan of salvation."... 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 »

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 »