Todd Deaton

For months now, South Carolina Baptist Convention officials and pastors have been declaring a need to ?protect marriage.? An overwhelming vote on Nov. 7 in favor of a marriage amendment to South Carolina's Constitution has given South Carolina Baptist... Continue Reading »

On the eve of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission's 60th anniversary, Hal Lane, its newly elected chairman of trustees, is as equally excited about how emerging technologies are enabling the Southern Baptist agency to place biblically based resources... Continue Reading »

The seven-member search committee charged with recommending the next executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention is ?moving forward with great confidence? in the process of finding a successor to Carlisle Driggers, who will step down from the... Continue Reading »

Facing the Giants is more than a movie about a football team that rises out of nowhere to play in a state championship game. Alex and Stephen Kendrick, associate pastors of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., and a... Continue Reading »

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, 31 people from Beaverdam Baptist Church met in mid-June at Huntsville, a few miles south of Clinton, with a dream of forming a new church. By the next May, they had organized as... Continue Reading »

?Preacher Nick? ? that's what he wanted us to call him. I can think of no better description: His life was a testimony to his Lord.... Continue Reading »

The amended report, which drew considerable discussion during the Tuesday morning session, removed a portion urging churches to ?adopt a missional mindset as they contribute at least 10 percent? of their undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program. Instead, the... Continue Reading »

Page received 4,546 votes of the 9,005 ballots cast, or 50.48 percent, in a race against Jerry Sutton of Nashville, Tenn., who received 2,168 votes, or 24.08 percent, and Ronnie Floyd of Springdale, Ark., who received 2,247 votes, or... Continue Reading »

The thunder of a racing engine ? the squeal of tires ? the smell of rubber burning ? gray smoke billowing in the cool evening air ? a race car glistening in the lights as it spins around, drawing... Continue Reading »

With a blue-ribbon task force on the Cooperative Program set to present its recommendations at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Greensboro, N.C., in two weeks, the CP giving records of the churches of presidential candidates... Continue Reading »

Hundreds of dads, sons, mothers and daughters gathered on a large grassy lot with little shade to hear gospel choruses and testimonies about how Christ can change lives and to celebrate a ministry. But this is anything but a... Continue Reading »

On Easter Sunday, April 16, at least 50 individuals stirred the baptismal waters in churches of all sizes across South Carolina, according to about 20 responses to an informal e-mail survey conducted by The Baptist Courier April 20.... Continue Reading »