Western Recorder, Second-Oldest Baptist Paper in America, to Cease Publication
The Western Recorder, the second-oldest Baptist newspaper in America, will cease publication March 31. Read full piece
Jack Brymer Influenced a Pivotal Generation of Baptist News
Jack E. Brymer Sr. died Oct. 28 in a Birmingham, Ala., nursing home at the age of 84 after a recent stroke. He was one of the brightest lights among Baptist journalists in the last half century — perhaps the most consequential semi-century for Baptists
Mississippi Baptist Newspaper Ceases Printing
The Baptist Record will cease printing after 143 years, going fully digital and free of charge on its own website. It is the fourth Baptist publication to stop printing this year.
Paving Paradise
Bob Dylan famously declared, “The times they are a-changin’.” In the world of journalism that sure feels spot on. Nearly every week another story hits about some publication going out of print or even out of business. And nearly every week it seems there’s also
Arkansas Baptist News Released to State Convention, No Longer Independent News Outlet
The Arkansas Baptist News (ABN) recently dissolved its autonomous board of directors and became a convention-run publication, according to an Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) press release Feb. 4.
Venezuelan Baptists Hold Media Conference
In December 2019, Word&Way helped sponsor a communication and media training event in Venezuela as the first part of a partnership with Luminar Bautista (Baptist Light), the media arm of Convención Nacional Bautista de Venezuela (National Baptist Convention of Venezuela).
Word&Way Launches Partnership with Venezuelan Baptists
Word&Way has started a partnership with Luminar Bautista, the media arm of Venezuelan Baptists. Luminar Bautista, which started in 1951, means “Baptist Light.”
Walker Knight, Founding Editor of Baptists Today Newspaper and Former Editor of Home Missions Magazine, Dead at 95
Walker L. Knight, a trailblazer in establishing a free and independent Baptist press, died Dec. 1 at age 95.
Longtime Baptist Journalist Jim Burton Dies at 63
CUMMING, Ga. (BP) -- Jim Burton, 63, Southern Baptist international photojournalist and storyteller and Baptist Press contributor, died on May 10 after living with ALS for six years.