Basketball, Bible team up at Jefferson City church
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The sound of bouncing balls echoed across Memorial Baptist Church, Jefferson City, as elementary students completed basketball drills. More than 50 first- through sixth-graders attended
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The sound of bouncing balls echoed across Memorial Baptist Church, Jefferson City, as elementary students completed basketball drills. More than 50 first- through sixth-graders attended
CBF of Missouri invited a group of ministers and lay leaders to discuss practical ministry implications of the 9th Annual Poverty Summit.
About 500 Missourians were challenged by the five pillars of poverty during the June 9th Poverty Summit in Jefferson City.
Younger evangelical pastors are less likely to self-identify as conservatives than older generations and more apt to view social justice as a gospel imperative, LifeWay Research director Ed Stetzer told a group of evangelical environmental activists.
My pastor tells me that, with the downturn in the economy, more people are requesting assistance from our church. We have limited funds. What can we do?
Women outnumbered men in many Baptist churches in colonial America, but most of their names have been lost to history, church historian Pam Durso lamented.
Southern-style Social Gospel may not be the first thing that springs to mind when most Baptists think of Woman’s Missionary Union, but Southern progressivism significantly influenced the organization in its formative years, church historian Carol Holcomb noted.
WINFIELD, Mo. (ABP) -- Thirty years after the Southern Baptist Convention began ridding itself of theological moderates and liberals, a prominent Missouri Baptist layman is warning that the nation's largest non-Catholic faith group now faces a different kind of liberalism from within.
Some of the same theological disputes that divided Baptists throughout their first 400 years continue to distinguish different branches of the Baptist family tree in the early years of the 21st century, theologian James Leo Garrett said.
Baptists in the United States—who find themselves members of a religious majority or plurality in many areas—would do well to remember their humble beginnings as a persecuted minority and to reconsider the dangers of a “majoritarian faith,” Baptist scholar Doug Weaver urged at a recent