The Baptist Courier

Ever since his election as first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the annual meeting in June in Phoenix, Fred Luter has heard the same question repeatedly.... Continue Reading »

The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention"s Executive Board has granted $1 million from reserve funds to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and encouraged Southern Baptist churches in Texas to "embrace" 1,000 of the 3,800 unengaged people... 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 and Great Commission outreach, including... Continue Reading »

Jerry Rankin, retired president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, has agreed to direct the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies at Columbia International University in Columbia, S.C.... Continue Reading »

North Texas" blazing summer heat, which already has more than a month"s worth of triple-digit days, all but warrants the necessity of an air-conditioned car.... Continue Reading »

While most Venezuelans were celebrating Christmas, President Hugo Chavez pushed a law through his lame-duck congress, giving himself decree powers for 18 months just before a new congress able to oppose him was seated.... Continue Reading »

Even in the midst of volatile markets, properly allocated retirement investors are advised to maintain their investment strategy, according to officials at GuideStone Financial Resources, a diversified provider of retirement and other financial products to Southern Baptist and other... Continue Reading »

A new role created by the North American Mission Board will help the entity maintain a strong focus on minority ministry needs and facilitate leadership opportunities for minorities throughout SBC life.... Continue Reading »

David B. Barrett, founding editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia, a former research consultant with the then-Foreign Mission Board, and a pioneer advocate for people groups still unreached with the Gospel, died Aug. 4 in Richmond, Va., after a... Continue Reading »

A new study has a bit of good news and lots of bad news for parents worried that their children are being exposed to sex online.... Continue Reading »

As journalists began digging into the who, what, when, where, why and how of Anders Behring Breivik, the deputy police chief of Oslo faced a media scrum and served up the day"s hottest sound bite.... Continue Reading »

-Tens, even scores, of millions of adult Americans will remember warmly the weekly papers we received in school from Scholastic. They were geared for specific age ranges, Kindergarten through 12th grade, and covered many subjects. They’re still around today,... Continue Reading »