(RNS) — Based on 76% of constituent churches that contributed information, Southern Baptists reported their lowest number of baptisms since 1950. “Baptism Sunday,” a newly-designated day on the Southern Baptist Convention's calendar, is in response to falling numbers.
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (RNS) — Demonstrators have flocked to this mountain to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope for reasons that are partly environmental and partly religious.
(RNS) — Historically, Americans want to help others, but how can those of us on the other side of the world — with little cultural knowledge of places affected by conflict — make a lasting impact? There is a solution that we share with these
Our lesson is aptly titled “Living in the Light.” Now there is a title that challenges God's church in our world! John is timely as he calls us to live the Christ life and show the world a better way.
For two decades, McKrae Game led Hope for Wholeness, a faith-based conversion therapy program in South Carolina’s Upstate. After announcing he was gay in June, Game is trying to come to terms with the harm he inflicted while also learning to embrace a world and
A Baptist pastor in Kentucky was mistakenly flamed Monday (Sept. 2) by President Donald Trump in a since-deleted tweet intended to criticize media coverage of Hurricane Dorian.
Hkalam Samson, president of the Kachin Baptist Convention of Myanmar, has been accused of “knowingly giving false information” during his trip to the United States for the 2019 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in mid-July.
HONG KONG (BP) -- The withdrawal of an extradition bill that threatened religious freedom in Hong Kong is not enough to satisfy Christians and others amid protests there, a Christian advocate told Baptist Press Wednesday (Sept. 4).
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s, announced a $1 million gift to Simmons College of Kentucky today (Sept. 4), declaring, “Supporting Simmons College is a better investment to build a better community.”
Our worship music is a product of our age and cannot escape our contemporary outlook. But singing old songs brings us into the outlook of the church in ages past, into the hearts and minds of our seasoned older siblings in Christ.