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Michael Lewis McGee, 82, of Spartanburg, a long-serving pastor, died Aug. 25, 2012.... Continue Reading »

The Tabernacle Experience, which features a full-sized replica of the Tabernacle of Moses, is coming to the Upstate.... Continue Reading »

Cooperative Program giving from South Carolina Baptist churches bounced back in August, pushing receipts into positive territory for the fiscal year. The August figures signaled a recovery from the previous month, when giving dipped below budgeted needs for the... Continue Reading »

A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow's two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels.... Continue Reading »

I have on my desk a drawing made for me from our visiting grandson Tillman of Mt. Pleasant who is celebrating his fifth birthday this month. Across the bottom is a “mural" of a person (or a Martian, it’s... Continue Reading »

When he was a 10th-grader, Edward Phillips? Sunday school teacher told him she imagined him working in missions overseas someday ? specifically, in Africa. The teenager was taken aback by the prophecy. But, three short years later, he began... Continue Reading »

A discipleship initiative named ?Multiply? is being launched by David Platt and Francis Chan from a burden ?about the commitment level of the local church to make disciples of all nations.?... Continue Reading »

As Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones ministered in an orphanage in Haiti a year after a catastrophic earthquake, there was a crushing blow closer to home. His teammate, Oklahoma linebacker Austin Box, died in May 2011 at age 22 of... Continue Reading »

The debut of 'the American Bible Challenge? game show provided Game Show Network its highest ratings ever, easily outperforming the previous record, the network says.... Continue Reading »

A small stone seal unearthed in Israel is likely the first archaeological evidence of the Old Testament judge Samson, say the co-directors of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Center for Archaeological Research.... Continue Reading »

Of all the games played, races run, and heats swam at the Summer Olympics, few had a backstory as enriching and defining as the men's tennis singles gold medal match. For Andy Murray, the Scotsman favored by the UK... Continue Reading »

A South Carolina Baptist minister has written a book that chronicles how one man's life was dramatically altered by the seemingly random chance of a military draft lottery.... Continue Reading »