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>The effectiveness of cell groups in reaching Hispanics, the need for quality discipleship materials in Spanish and family pressures experienced by Hispanic believers were among the topics discussed at the first meeting of the Hispanic Advisory Council on the... Continue Reading »

The faith community of Clemson is sponsoring "Coexist? The Question of (In)tolerance," an event open to the public featuring apologists Ravi Zacharias and John Njoroge on March 8 at 7 p.m. at Littlejohn Coliseum.... Continue Reading »

The Delta Junction congregation -- started in 1952 by First Baptist Church of Fairbanks, 100 miles to the north -- has found ways of contextualizing the Gospel for native Alaskans, "subsistence Alaskans" and military personnel while at the same... Continue Reading »

As of Feb. 29, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program Allocation Budget totaled $81,622,100.78, or 105.32 percent of the $77,500,000 year-to-date budgeted amount to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America.... Continue Reading »

An interview President Obama conducted in 2004 about his faith is getting a second look after being re-posted on a popular website, and it shows that on several major doctrinal issues -- including sin, heaven and the Gospel"s exclusivity... Continue Reading »

Today, March 2, is the one-year anniversary of the murder in Pakistan of 42-year-old Shahbaz Bhatti.... Continue Reading »

>The battle over the Obama administration"s contraceptive/abortion mandate is about religious freedom, not the availability of birth control, women leaders inside and outside Congress say.... Continue Reading »

It"s only when you get to the macro level and begin to aggregate it all that you can see the clear pattern of the advantage of kids from intact marriages over kids from divorced families," said Patrick Fagan, director... Continue Reading »

The task force appointed to study a possible name change for the Southern Baptist Convention is recommending the convention maintain its legal name but adopt an informal, non-legal name for those who want to use it: ?Great Commission Baptists.?... Continue Reading »

Pastors of leading Southern Baptist churches will fill key speaking roles at the 21st annual National Conference on Preaching, May 14-16 at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga. The conference is sponsored by Preaching magazine and Anderson University's... Continue Reading »

For one week in January, Kim led a group of 24 Southwestern students to Tekax (te-kash), Mexico, where they worked with missionary Shelby Boyd.... Continue Reading »

The Southern Baptist Convention Name Change Task Force has completed its work and officially gave its recommendation to convention president Bryant Wright and to the Executive Committee of the SBC on Feb. 20. In brief, the recommendation is that... Continue Reading »