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2011 Pastor’s Conference: A Time to ‘Be Encouraged!’

Ty Childers, president of the South Carolina Baptist Pastor's Conference, hopes pastors and others who attend the 2011 Pastor's Conference Nov. 14 in Cayce will leave feeling encouraged in their ministries.... Continue Reading »

SCBC president names committee on committees

Sonny Holmes, president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, has announced 15 appointments to the SCBC's Committee on Committees for 2012.... Continue Reading »

Immeasurably More: Five Things

In the final weeks before the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Nov. 15-16, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, five things are clear.... Continue Reading »

SCBC launches updated website Nov. 1

The South Carolina Baptist Convention will introduce changes to its website Nov. 1 in a move to make it more user-friendly.... Continue Reading »

Letters: Maintain proven strategy

We are considering restructuring our state's Cooperative Program money so that our North American Mission Board and our International Mission Board will get more money. The reasoning is that we spend too much money in our state and not... Continue Reading »

Letters: Helping our institutions

Are we willing to do what it takes to help our institutions thrive? If not, then the South Carolina Great Commission Resurgence will ultimately harm them ? and so will the status quo. I don't think the question is... Continue Reading »

Letters: SBC: The name’s not broken

To even entertain the idea of changing the name of the Southern Baptist Convention is obviously absurd and a prime example of trying to fix something that isn't broken.... Continue Reading »

Letters: SBC name-change questions

The article in the Sept. 29 Courier ('s.C. pastor to serve on task force to study possible SBC name change?) is very interesting on both sides of the issue.... Continue Reading »

Letters: New SBC direction, new name?

In reference to the letter concerning it being a waste of time to discuss a name change for the Southern Baptist Convention (?Your Views,? Oct. 13) and the chivalrous defense of 'southern? being a name of integrity, I would... Continue Reading »

Letters: New name: From SBC to ABC?

I read the Courier all the time and enjoy it so much. It is very informative. I have been reading about changing the name from Southern Baptist Convention to something else.... Continue Reading »

Letters: Losing more than we gain

I don't think the suggested name change for the Southern Baptist Convention has to do with political correctness. In fairness, the name 'southern? no longer really reflects who we are.... Continue Reading »

Letters: Honoring vows ‘in sickness’

In response to ?Alzheimer's, Pat Robertson & the True Gospel? (Sept. 29): My mother developed Alzheimer's at an early age. My dad stayed with her. He had to put her in a nursing home, but he visited her many... Continue Reading »