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Call for 2023 SCBC Resolutions

Resolutions to be considered at the 2023 South Carolina Baptist Convention Annual Meeting are due by midnight on Oct. 13, 2023. Submissions must include your name, address, email address, and cell phone number. Please include the name and address... Continue Reading »

NGU football field sporting new look for 2023 season

The off-season brought some major changes to Melvin & Dollie Younts Stadium at North Greenville University’s Tigerville campus. NGU recently contracted GEOSurfaces to replace the football turf, which had been in place since the fall semester of 2014. “It’s... Continue Reading »

Hagood church members show faith is greater than fire

Losing their building to a fire has only further ignited the faith of the members of Hagood Avenue Baptist Church in Barnwell. As the building burned Aug. 11 following a lightning strike, church members and leaders gathered in the... Continue Reading »

S.C. units among multi-state disaster relief response to Vermont flooding

Recovery work by Southern Baptist Disaster Relief responded to catastrophic flooding in Vermont in late July. South Carolina sent mud-out units, assessors, chaplains, and shower and laundry teams to the city of Barre to help affected homeowners. Feeding teams... Continue Reading »

President’s Perspective: That’s Why

As I write this, I am sitting in my office at 12:33 a.m. on Thursday, July 13, 2023. It’s a strange time to be typing an article for The Baptist Courier. Indeed, what a strange time to be awake.... Continue Reading »

Outside the Walls: Some Things Never Go Out of Style

It was a hot summer day in July. My wife and I would be married in just a few hours, and I had secured the perfect getaway car. It was my wife’s dream car, so I wanted us to... Continue Reading »

Legislative Update: U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Two Crucial Religious Liberty Decisions

For Christians, living in a culture that has abandoned absolute truth and reason as its foundation means freedom to speak the truth about biblical truths crucial to our witness and influence within the culture. Jesus’ prayer to His Father... Continue Reading »

Wholly Healthy: Reviewing Our Prescriptions

We live in the age of the prescription. Turn on the television, and you’re likely to see a commercial recommending the latest, greatest pill or injection for everything from psoriasis to bladder spasm. Furthermore, the ads clearly suggest that... Continue Reading »

S.C. Attorney General, Six Others Join Coalition Opposing Target’s Pride Campaign

Attorneys general from seven states, including South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, have joined a coalition opposing Target’s LGBTQ+ Pride campaign. The coalition joined in a letter to Target Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell in opposing the corporation’s campaign,... Continue Reading »

Join in on the Clemens Family Trip in ‘Ezekiel and Friends’

“Forty Days with Ezekiel and Friends” by Jean Holland (Courier Publishing, 252 pages, $15.95) is a new devotional book for families. When the Clemens family lands in Israel, the father walks briskly up to the tour guide awaiting their... Continue Reading »

Signed beam installed at NGU’s Donnan Administration Building

An 18-foot steel beam that was prayed over and signed by North Greenville University administrators, faculty, staff, students, and board members on March 2 now serves as a structural piece for the new entrance at the university’s Donnan Administration... Continue Reading »

Real Savior found by IMB missionary in virtual world

Lonely. Desperate. Drunk. Anxiety-ridden. It was a life Michaela knew all too well. Growing up, she watched family members travel the exact road she was on. She wanted an escape. So the young woman turned on the computer and... Continue Reading »