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If the North American Mission Board"s Send North America evangelistic church planting initiative is to succeed, it must include thousands of bivocational pastors who are willing to plant churches.... Continue Reading »

Faced with increasing opposition from school administrations, some Christian groups, including InterVarsity, are preparing for what they fear is an inevitable break with the official university system.... Continue Reading »

>With the goal of keeping roadside crosses in place in the face of a federal court order, the Utah Highway Patrol Association has removed the state"s highway patrol logo from more than a dozen crosses statewide -- and reiterated... Continue Reading »

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule if children conceived by in vitro fertilization following the death of their father can receive Social Security benefits.... Continue Reading »

A total of 764 messengers to the 105th annual meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma focused on the theme "Together" at First Baptist Church in Moore Nov. 14-15.... Continue Reading »

With the approval of a state Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report, messengers to the 191st annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention charted a course to provide more financial support for international missions as well as for... Continue Reading »

Messengers to the 176th annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware approved a budget increasing Cooperative Program giving and passed a resolution in support of biblically-defined traditional marriage.... Continue Reading »

The accusations of child sexual abuse by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky have outraged an entire country.... Continue Reading »

The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention has deployed two volunteers to Thailand to train Baptist representatives in the Asian country how to properly and safely clean out a home inundated with floodwater and to apply mold remediation to the... Continue Reading »

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention will be Dec. 4-11 with the theme of “His heart, His hands, His voice — I am Southern Baptist missions” from Acts 1:8. Each... Continue Reading »

Many Journeymen -- recent college graduates serving as short-term IMB missionaries -- have found creative ways to rub shoulders with people, develop relationships and have spiritual conversations.... Continue Reading »

Faith Hill. Steve Jobs. Babe Ruth. They all have one thing in common. They were adopted. There are an estimated 107,000 children and youth waiting in the United States’ foster-care system to be adopted, according to the U.S. Department... Continue Reading »