The Baptist Courier

James S. Netherton, president of Carson-Newman College since 2000, announced his resignation Feb. 16, effective June 1, to become executive vice president for administration and finance at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., on Oct. 1.... Continue Reading »

Genre Praise and Worship, Southern Gospel, Contemporary Christian Playlist A Loss for Words (listen) Open the Eyes of My Heart Here I Am to Worship Grace Like Rain Worthy Is the Lamb I Bowed on My Knees and Cried... Continue Reading »

Terror struck New Orleans Feb. 13 as an early morning tornado touched down in neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina's onslaught in 2005.... Continue Reading »

It's another early morning for Bill Barker in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. He leaves home earlier than usual in his brown Toyota minivan, which suddenly tops a mountain crest. He pulls off the road to talk to... Continue Reading »

The Gulf Coast of Alabama is blessed with a usually warm, emerald-green ocean for swimming and sugar-white, soft-sand beaches for sunning. It's a paradise that draws 6 million people a year, but 70 percent of them don't know Christ.... Continue Reading »

As the time for his official retirement as executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention approached, Carlisle Driggers answered this series of questions posed by The Baptist Courier.... Continue Reading »

In the last issue of the Courier, I began looking at the parable of the fig tree (Luke 13:1-9). It is one of the most powerful passages in all the word of God.... Continue Reading »

Clyde L. Fox, 82, of Mauldin, a retired Baptist pastor and active denominational servant, died Feb. 14, 2007.... Continue Reading »

Rodger D. Martin, 51, associate pastor of Mechanicsville Baptist Church, Darlington, died Jan. 31, 2007.... Continue Reading »

Russia is the largest country on earth and full of natural resources, but it is dying. Its people cannot surmount the degradation of years of neglect and of rhetoric that promised so much, but delivered so little.... Continue Reading »

While walking in a small town in Thailand years ago, Richard Blount spotted some Buddhists entering a temple and sensed his first heart-tug for missions.... Continue Reading »

Having been ?paralyzed by shame? since news of his involvement with a male prostitute surfaced in November, Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intense psychological treatment with a Feb. 5 e-mail to members of New Life Church in... Continue Reading »