Tapping baby boomer retirees requires churches to rethink ministry options
Churches that want to tap baby boomer retirees' resources may need to rethink the ministries they ask mature adults to take on.
Baptist leaders: Learn lessons from Ferguson
The killing of a Ferguson, Mo., teenager and the riots that followed can teach Christ-followers and churches a few lessons, a church planter and a suburban pastor believe.
Exactly WHAT is discipleship?
Ask the average Baptist on the street - or the average Christian - to define discipleship and you'll likely get a variety of answers.
The state of discipleship
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Obamacare changing the way faith-based hospitals deliver care
Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — is now the law. Faith-based healthcare providers say it's changing the way hospitals view patient care.
Facility must balance aesthetics, function
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Flexible or multi-use spaces and renovation of older facilities are current trends in church architecture that likely will continue for a while.
Ross Williams, a Springfield, Mo.-based architect, believes the
Olmsted crosses denominational barrier as interim pastor
Michael Olmsted didn’t have to pray too long about serving as interim pastor — even though he's a Baptist by conviction and the congregation is affiliated with a different denomination.
Churches, denominations bear responsibility for unethical clergy
Ministers are responsible for their actions as individuals, sometimes by civil authorities and ultimately by God. But what responsibility, if any, should the local church and the denomination bear for unethical behavior of their pastors and other church ministers?
Everyone pays a high price for ministerial misconduct
Everyone pays a high price when the church shepherd breaches trust.
Ukrainian Baptists continue ministry amid conflict
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Ukrainian Baptists have stepped up ministry as conflict continues to tear at their country, Slavik Pyzh told pastors and lay leaders in Missouri.
The president of Ukrainian