Missouri Baptist Foundation names Mathis as interim, honors Smith at retirement
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Ezell elected NAMB president
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) -- Trustees elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention after a four-hour called meeting Sept. 14.
Point, shoot, protect rights to photos
Recently, someone posed an interesting question: Who owns the pictures you share online? Well, you do, of course, you took the photo. The actual answer is not always that easy.
‘Least of these’ may have less now
The headline in the Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune sounded a community-wide alarm: “Pantry’s shelves looking bare.” Communities large and small all across Missouri have benevolent agencies like this, many of them faith-based.
Opinion: An inevitable test of Christian faith
(ABP) -- Twenty years ago, a good friend and neighbor languished in a hospital bed, dying of leukemia at age 36. He grew up in the Deep South, the product of a Christian home and a Baptist church. He accepted Jesus as
RIGHT or WRONG? Oil-spill outrage
As crude oil began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, everyone seemed to focus more on finger-pointing than on taking responsibility and finding solutions to the disaster. Where can a citizen lodge a legal complaint that would bring damage-control to bear upon a situation
Fear not, Jesus said — but some Christians still do
Perfect love, wrote the Apostle John, casts out fear. But 2,000 years after those words were written, many disciples of Christ still find their lives dominated by fear.
Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque
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Living in the midst of fear is challenging but possible, church leaders insist
Peaceful living in a fear-provoking environment is challenging, even—maybe especially—for Christians. Church leaders suggested several ways Christians can confront fear.
Dickinsons’ dinner and music ministers to Dells’ visitors
From an old Shakey’s pizza parlor in St. Louis to a dinner barn near Wisconsin Dells, Wisc., Cynthia Dickinson sees God’s hand in a lifetime of music.