Five years ago, about right now, we were submitting 28 pages of content formulated into the first edition of The Baptist Paper.
Five years ago, The Baptist Paper launched as a national printed newspaper. It had been talked about “through the years,” said Jennifer Davis Rash, president and editor-in-chief of TAB Media Group, publisher of The Alabama Baptist, now in its 183rd year of publication.
Recent research paints a sobering picture of faith in America: The religiously unaffiliated are growing, theological convictions are weakening and the “spiritual” population remains a relatively small group.
From Johnson City to Jackson, 47 Tennessee Baptist churches set aside the Sunday after Easter as a day for baptism. When the day came, 185 people said yes.
Baptist churches have a centuries-long history of supporting missionaries, but short-term mission trips have become popular among evangelical church members only since the 1960s.
For eight days beginning on April 10, the Crisp County Courthouse in Cordele was the site of the first-ever Crisp County Bible Reading Marathon. Volunteers gathered there to read the Bible from cover to cover.
As we recognize April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, may we as followers of Jesus choose to shine brightly in a world that desperately needs His light. (Matthew 5:16)
A spiritual awakening is taking place inside Franklin Parish Detention Center, with 12 incarcerated men celebrating freedom in Christ through baptism on April 12.
Hillvue Heights Church doesn’t apologize for its passion for the gospel. It’s embedded in the church’s DNA.
On the campus of Morehead State University, gospel seeds are being planted with steady consistency.
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