The Baptist Courier

Despite last year's economic downturn, Southern Baptists still contributed more than $58 million to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in 2008 ? 98 percent of the amount raised in the previous year's campaign.... Continue Reading »

A new LifeWay Research survey indicates that most Southern Baptist pastors don't think the members of their congregation have a significant amount of debt, and a South Carolina Baptist Convention stewardship expert says many pastors don't deal aggressively with... Continue Reading »

Theron Willis, a senior print media major at North Greenville University, has begun work for the spring semester as an intern with The Baptist Courier.... Continue Reading »

It is sad that in many churches visitors are not noticed ? or welcomed, for that matter.... Continue Reading »

It seems paradoxical, but change is the one constant in life ? everyone faces it virtually everyday. We are faced with changes in technology, laws, procedures, relationships and values. At times, this change is considered a positive, while at... Continue Reading »

Evans Whitaker, president of Anderson University, has been elected to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He is one of a 77-member body elected to represent approximately 800 member institutions.... Continue Reading »

CP giving almost 5 percent behind ’08 pace Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program are 4.97 percent behind the same time frame at the outset of 2008. As of Dec. 31, the year-to-date total of $47,257,976... Continue Reading »

A new poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that a significant minority of self-identified evangelicals believe that many religions can lead to salvation, even though some of those evangelicals apparently are confused over what... Continue Reading »

Each year, Baptist Press cartoonist Joe McKeever creates a series of cartoons dealing with the theme for the Southern Baptist Convention's annual January Bible Study. This month, churches around the SBC will be studying the book of Exodus.... Continue Reading »

In the midst of a sagging national economy, South Carolina Baptists gave more than $50.4 million in total missions gifts in 2008, an increase of nearly 1 percent over 2007.... Continue Reading »

People's Baptist Church in Greer opened its doors Jan. 6 to an overflow crowd of more than 400 people who turned out to support the ?I Believe? license plate after a federal judge stopped production and distribution of the... Continue Reading »

Meeting Dec. 11 at the convention building in Columbia, members of the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention elected new officers and addressed a potential shortfall in 2008 Cooperative Program receipts.... Continue Reading »