NEW ORLEANS (ABP) -- A Louisiana pastor says he has no plans to be nominated as the Southern Baptist Convention's first African-American president this summer in Orlando, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jerry Rankin announced Sept. 16 he will retire as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board this summer, ending
North American Mission Board trustees on Aug. 12 named Richard Harris, the organization's senior strategist for missions advancement, as acting interim president.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A seminary president calling for a "Great Commission Resurgence" in the Southern Baptist Convention says reversing the denomination's declining baptism totals is a matter of not just evangelism, but also biological growth.
TAYLORS, S.C. — A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said he is "deeply concerned" about comments by Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren that a recent court decision allowing gay marriage is not part of his agenda.
Missouri Baptist pastor and educator Thomas Stewart Field, 93, of Springfield died March 12 at Cox South Hospital in Springfield. He was president of William Jewell College from 1970 to 1980 and interim
An unbelievable number of books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. In a veritable historical laboratory, his life has been studied and dissected by scholars and the less scholarly, by admirers, detractors and the merely curious.
Candidates identified with ‘Save Our Convention’ win top elections again By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor ST. LOUIS — For the second year in a row, messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting elected officers identified with the Save Our Convention (SOC)