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Bullying is growing worse at every level. It is present in homes, schools, playgrounds, sports venues and workplaces. It assaults us on television and over radio. How can the church respond to the growing menace? The Bible gives ample... Continue Reading »

Parisview Baptist Church in Greenville celebrated ?a century of making Christ's love accessible to all? on April 27.... Continue Reading »

President Obama Wednesday became the first sitting U.S. president to support gay "marriage" publicly, an announcement that was surprising perhaps only in its timing and one that could impact the general election.... Continue Reading »

Recently a band of Baptist pastors and laity from South Carolina introduced themselves to national pastors and other Christian workers in Delhi, India, on a ?discovery? visit to that nation's capital city, which is home to 30 million people.... Continue Reading »

The first of three books written by evangelist Frank Shivers of Columbia and designed for students ? this one entitled ?Hot Buttons on Apologetics? ? has been released and is drawing praise from youth leaders in South Carolina.... Continue Reading »

A five-part apology for "injudicious comments" was released today (May 9) by Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, regarding the Trayvon Martin killing.... Continue Reading »

The old maxim ?like father, like son? possesses a core, ubiquitous truth. For May 2012 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate Joshua Thomas, the maxim has held true for four generations. Thomas? completion of his degree will make him a... Continue Reading »

One woman's genealogical quest to understand ?from whence I came? has resulted in a 300-page book that interweaves the faith history of her ancestors with the earliest years of some Baptist churches in Orangeburg County.... Continue Reading »

North Carolina voters have made the state the 30th in the U.S. to define marriage within a constitution as between a man and a woman, passing a proposal that had drawn nationwide attention by a margin even larger than... Continue Reading »

GuideStone Funds has won one of the most prestigious awards in the financial world for mutual fund families with up to $40 billion in assets ? the 2012 Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group in the U.S.... Continue Reading »

When the coal mines of Lynch, Ky., closed in the 1970s, a town lost its major industry, and a community was left in crisis. That crisis continues today for the retired miners and their families, according to Steven Ruff,... Continue Reading »

>Every state that has voted on the issue of marriage at the ballot has affirmed the traditional definition of marriage being between a man and a woman.... Continue Reading »