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Windermere Baptist Conference Center trustees likely will choose a new executive following the arrest of current President and CEO Jerald "Jerry" Hill.

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.

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 when the church shepherd breaches trust.

Jordan: Where John baptized, the Hebrew exiles wandered and Moses caught a glimpse of the Promised Land.

Today the area of land that butts up to the east side of the Jordan River where first-century baptisms were recorded in Scripture is still known by the biblical name Bethany Beyond the Jordan.

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 Baptist Theological Seminary spoke to a small gathering on July 1 at First Baptist Church in Jefferson City, one of several stops in Missouri to continue building a partnership with Baptists in the United States.

Are Baptists and other evangelicals as willing to demonstrate the same commitment to religious liberty for everyone that early theologians did?

CBF Heartland made its annual Circle of Giving presentation of a check for $5,000 during its “state” meting at the CBF General Assembly in Atlanta on June 26. The recipient is the Samuel Project of CBF field personnel Shane and Diane McNary, who minister among the Romany people in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

As church planting efforts burgeon and congregations look for new ways to reach their communities, opportunities for ministry outside the building grow. While leaders often are aware of safety issues at church, the same concerns must be examined outside the facility as well.