The Baptist Courier

BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases of interest from other sources. The items are published as received.... Continue Reading »

This is just one parent"s list of things that were meaningful to me as a child or things that I"ve noticed have struck an evident chord in the heart of my children.... Continue Reading »

A man identifying himself as Vincent Lachina claiming to be "an ordained Southern Baptist minister" with Mississippi roots turned up in Tupelo at a public hearing in early August on Initiative 26, also known as the Personhood Amendment that... Continue Reading »

Jim Wallis, CEO of Sojourners, and Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention"s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, met at the National Press Club to address the issues that should concern America"s next president and the voters who... Continue Reading »

The three congressmen -- Reps. Dan Boren, D-Okla., Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., and James Lankford, R-Okla. -- distributed to all 435 members of the House of Representatives a book titled "Obama Prayer: Prayer for the 44th President," by Charles Garriott,... Continue Reading »

John Yeats, who was elected with 92 percent of the vote by the MBC Executive Board Oct. 13, was officially installed during special ceremonies on the convention"s Oct. 31-Nov. 2 sessions at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach.... Continue Reading »

John Yeats, in his first address as executive director to messengers of the Missouri Baptist Convention, identified seven core functions of a state convention.... Continue Reading »

Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New York adopted a pared-down 2012 budget, though it increases contributions to national and international mission causes, and approved a motion to establish a "Vision Task Force" charged with... Continue Reading »

The church-made film "Courageous" will open in about 150 new cities this weekend, including such non-Bible Belt places as Juneau, Alaska; Port Angeles Wash.; and Oxford, Maine.... Continue Reading »

Mississippi has become ground zero in the debate over the legal status of the preborn.... Continue Reading »

Hello, my name is Terry and I"m a workaholic.... Continue Reading »

From the States, published each Tuesday by Baptist Press, relays news and feature stories from state Baptist papers and other publications on initiatives by Baptist churches, associations and state conventions in evangelism, church planting... Continue Reading »