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GCR Task Force files (part 5): Saving NAMB

August 29, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE — The Baptist Paper staff members continue their review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task

90-year-old pastor celebrated by Georgia community

August 29, 2025

Senior pastor Randy Ellis stated, “George Ross is a man who sets the golden standard for the heart of the pastor. At 90 years old, he still faithfully ministers to those under his care. Ross’s ability to connect with people and impart empathy is unmatched.”

First person: Cracker Barrel and repentance

August 28, 2025

If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, you probably saw that Cracker Barrel stirred up quite the fuss.

Church shatters baptism record with 846 and counting

August 28, 2025

After a record year of baptisms last year, Hillvue Heights Church has exceeded that total by more than 100 this year.

India’s harshest anti-conversion law approved in Uttarakhand

August 28, 2025

Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment.

Your Voice: Reflecting on Labor Day; seeking community in a work-from-home world

August 28, 2025

First-person articles, comments, letters to the editor, blog excerpts, social media posts and more.

‘Incomprehensible’: 2 children killed, 17 others wounded in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school

August 27, 2025

Police are investigating a school shooting in Minneapolis that took the lives of two children and left 17 others wounded on Wednesday (Aug. 27).

Keith Parks, former Baptist missions leader, dies at 97

August 27, 2025

R. Keith Parks, missions leader who played a key role in opening Southern Baptists’ eyes to the millions of unreached peoples worldwide, died Aug. 26. He was 97.

Russian Baptists continue to meet after ‘house of prayer’ sealed

August 27, 2025

The Russian Supreme Court in Moscow is scheduled Aug. 28 to hear the appeal of an unregistered Baptist church in Kurganinsk whose building was sealed by government officials in May.