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Tony Beam to serve on SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Tony Beam, vice president for student life and Christian worldview at North Greenville University, has been appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Nominating Committee to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The commission works to engage the culture with... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Thomas Daum 

Thomas George Daum, 90, of Clinton, died Aug. 10, 2017. Born Nov. 12, 1926, in Marietta, Ga., he was a graduate of Erskine College and Erskine Seminary. He was also a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Dock Rabon

Dock S. Rabon, 87, of Aynor, died Aug. 15, 2017. He was born June 28, 1930, and pastored at Camp Branch, Myrtle Head, Lawndale and New Home, and was the current pastor of Pleasant Union Baptist Church, where he... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Ray Rogers

C. Ray Rogers, 84, of Florence, died Aug. 14, 2017. Born in Wilmington, N.C., he was a graduate of Mars Hill College, Wake Forest University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He formerly served Turbeville First Baptist Church in Turbeville... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Rigba Conner Wolfe

Rigba Conner Wolfe, 81, of Columbia, died Aug. 18, 2017. Born June 5, 1936, he served in the U.S. Air Force for four years. He was ordained to the ministry in 1967 and served as a pastor of Beaver... Continue Reading »

Columbia First launches interactive online Sunday school class

For the past 62 years, Columbia First Baptist Church has broadcast worship services on television and advanced the gospel over the public airwaves in South Carolina and in parts of North Carolina and Georgia. More recently, worship services have... Continue Reading »

Energetic nonagenarian presented Baptist Foundation award

Age has never been a hindrance for Franklin G. Mason, a man who ran his first marathon at 60 and who still practices dentistry at 92. He has been on 35 medical mission trips to eight different countries, served... Continue Reading »

Guest Viewpoint: Responding to Criticism

In life, there are two things we can’t avoid: death and taxes. Let’s add criticism as another unavoidable part of life. Criticism can come from our all sorts of people — our spouse, our boss, a friend or enemy,... Continue Reading »

SCBC president appoints 2018 Committee on Committees

Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 26, 2017, to reflect the addition of Mike Moody (Honea Path First Baptist Church) as a replacement committee member for Greg Batchelor (Hoffmeyer Road Baptist Church, Florence). Keith Shorter, president of the... Continue Reading »

Anderson University to host lecture Sept. 26 commemorating 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation

Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School and a widely published church historian, will speak on “The Heart Yearning for Grace: Martin Luther’s Road to Reformation Faith” as part of Anderson University’s celebration of the 500th anniversary of the... Continue Reading »

Letter: Is ‘Nashville Statement’ necessary?

I just read the Nashville Statement and I agree with its 14 articles. I simply ask: Why is this necessary? In June 1997, the Southern Baptist Convention (the denomination to which I belong), voted to boycott Disney — its... Continue Reading »

Mohler defends ‘Nashville Statement’ in Washington Post op-ed

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writing in a Sept. 3 “Perspective” piece in the Washington Post, addressed “the vitriol” in response to the Aug. 29 Nashville Statement signed by a group of evangelical Christians... Continue Reading »