The Baptist Courier

Aiken Baptist Association messengers have adopted a statement that expresses non-support for the report of the South Carolina Baptist Convention's Great Commission Resurgence Task Force ?as it is being presented? at the upcoming SCBC annual meeting. An accompanying statement... Continue Reading »

For much of his 92 years, Billy Graham has had one main title: evangelist. But in a new memoir set in the twilight of his remarkable life, Graham reveals a lesser-known side of himself: a grieving and ailing widower... Continue Reading »

Television host Pat Robertson said Sept. 26 that comments he made about divorce and Alzheimer's disease were ?misinterpreted.?... Continue Reading »

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

The Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, meeting Oct. 10-11 at White Oak Conference Center, elected Lee Clamp to the position of director of the SCBC's evangelism group. Clamp serves as missional pastor of First Baptist Church,... Continue Reading »

James A. Wright Jr. has been named vice president for finance and operations at Anderson University. Wright joins the university after a long tenure at the South Carolina Baptist Convention, where for more than three decades he oversaw the... Continue Reading »

A jailed Iranian pastor who could be put to death for his faith has been given Islamic literature and been asked to read it -- a move potentially meant to trap him into a blasphemy conviction.... Continue Reading »

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 »

A church in Santo Domingo may be the first congregation in the Dominican Republic with a chime choir, thanks to the missions efforts of musicians from a South Carolina church.... Continue Reading »

The task force appointed to study the prospect of changing the Southern Baptist Convention"s name held its first meeting Oct. 26 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.... Continue Reading »

Aadam Channar* was only a young boy quietly listening in the shadows when Baptist missionary Hu Addleton first brought the Gospel to his Hindu tribal village in Pakistan.... Continue Reading »

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 »