The Baptist Courier

A little more than a day after a series of fires gutted three Baptist churches and damaged two others in Bibb County, Ala., the smell of burning embers still was in the air.... Continue Reading »

Anderson University celebrated two milestones during Founders Day festivities on Feb. 7. The occasion marked the 95th year since the institution's founding and the first convocation as Anderson University.... Continue Reading »

?You are the vanguard of our graduate program,? Sam Isgett told the first class of North Greenville University's T. Walter Brashier Graduate School at the school's opening Feb. 6.... Continue Reading »

JIM McMAKIN has accepted the call as pastor of Jackson Baptist Church, Wellford. A graduate of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, he and his wife Karen have two children, Zach, 16, and Hannah Rose, 7.   Gerald Cottone GERALD PAUL COTTONE... Continue Reading »

Dina Hair, director of resident services and community relations, and William Fleming, maintenance technician – employees of Martha Franks Retirement Center since its opening in 1985 – received service pins Jan. 25, marking 20 years of employment. With Hair... Continue Reading »

While most people were at home with their families over Christmas break, a group from North Greenville University spent their vacation a little differently. A group of 15 volunteers, eight of whom represented NGU, set out on Dec. 9... Continue Reading »

Soulforce makes Easter plans Soulforce and other homosexual rights advocates are planning to make a statement in Washington this spring by lining up 1,000 “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender” families to participate in the annual White House Easter Egg... Continue Reading »

Explaining the concept of Intelligent Design, William Dembski compared it to looking at Mount Rushmore, the national memorial located in South Dakota that displays the granite faces of four American presidents.... Continue Reading »

For almost three years it has been my privilege to represent Southern Baptists as a trustee on the International Mission Board. I was previously privileged to serve for two terms as a missionary with the IMB in South America.... Continue Reading »

The women gathered at the annual Women's Lifestyle Evangelism Conference started the conference like they started the morning ? looking at a woman in curlers. Only this time, the bathrobe-clothed woman was humorist Kay DeKalb Smith and her practical... Continue Reading »

?What do you want from Jesus? Why are you following him?? The question posed by speaker Clayton King hung over the room of nearly 700 college students at the annual retreat Converge Jan. 27-29 in Myrtle Beach, where students... Continue Reading »

Standing in the pulpit of First Baptist Church, Mixon, Tex., in 1950, 15-year-old Jimmy Draper preached his first sermon. ?I had it down to 30 minutes,? Draper said, recalling his first step into the ministry. ?When I got up... Continue Reading »