The Baptist Courier

On Nov. 9, Friendship Baptist Church, Gray Court, honored the local EMS, law enforcement and fire departments. The evening event, at which more than 100 public servants and church members were present, included a meal and a magic show... Continue Reading »

Stacy Williams Stacy Williams began duties Oct. 16 as pastor of First Baptist Church, Edgefield. A native of Greer, he is a graduate of North Greenville University and Erskine Seminary. He and his wife Lynn have two children, Cade... Continue Reading »

The Georgia Baptist Convention, by an overwhelming majority, voted Nov. 15 to sever its 172-year-old relationship with Mercer University.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Historical Society presented its annual award for the outstanding bicentennial celebration to The Baptist Church of Beaufort.... Continue Reading »

I read with great disappointment the article in the Nov. 17 issue of The Baptist Courier entitled, “Missouri Baptists narrow membership, exclude CBF” (page 6). From a doctrinal perspective, I do not know to what extent Missouri Baptists are... Continue Reading »

Here are the resolutions approved by messengers to the 2005 meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »

William Willimon, bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Jeff Rogers, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenville, are the keynote speakers for the Eleventh Annual John A. Hamrick Lectureship at First Baptist Church, Charleston,... Continue Reading »

We live in a culture that continues to push the envelope to become more and more immoral. In the midst of this disintegration, why do Christians seem to have such a small and seemingly insignificant impact?... Continue Reading »

William Boyce, former president of South Carolina Baptist Hospitals Inc., died of an extended illness on Nov. 9 in Columbia at the hospital he led for 30 years. He was 83.... Continue Reading »

When the cold of winter snaps the leaves from the trees on West Meeting Street, Denley Caughman can look out his office window in Moriah Baptist Association Center and see the location of his birth. Born in the old... Continue Reading »

The lighting is set. The cameras are rolling. The anchors are behind the desk, ready to deliver the evening's news. While this scene may be fairly common across the nation, for North Greenville University students, it marked a new... Continue Reading »

Kelly McCorkle has represented the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant, worked for Jim DeMint in his bid to become a senator and traveled around the world as a contestant on CBS? ?Amazing Race.? Now she... Continue Reading »