Longtime Baptist journalist, educator and editor dies at 73
December 23, 2022
Craig Bird, Baptist journalist and educator, died Dec. 12 due to complications from a fall the week before. He was 73. Bird was born Oct.
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IMB missionary emeritus Tim Cearley dies at 68
December 19, 2022
Timothy “Tim” Dane Cearley, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in Zimbabwe, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana, died Nov. 5. He
Dan Busby, longest-serving president of evangelical financial watchdog, dies at 81
September 30, 2022
Dan Busby, who was president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability for more than a decade, has died after a months-long bout with cancer.
Marilynn Blackaby, wife of ‘Experiencing God’ author Henry Blackaby, dies at 83
September 30, 2022
Marilynn Blackaby, 83, died Thursday (Sept. 29) after a short battle with liver cancer. “Over the last few days, we as her family have wept
Longtime MO Baptist editor Don Hinkle dies
September 23, 2022
Don Hinkle, the Missouri Pathway’s founding editor, died Thursday (Sept. 22). Known for his colorful bow ties, quick wit and love for journalism, Hinkle, 68,
John H. Faulkner, former AL pastor and IMB missionary, dies
September 1, 2022
John Hershel Faulkner, retired missionary and pastor, died July 13. He was 87. Faulkner was a native of Bear Creek, Alabama, where he learned to
Retired Tennessee Baptist leader James Porch dies at age 81
August 4, 2022
James Porch, who served as executive director of the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (now Tennessee Baptist Mission Board) for 18 years (1992–2010)
Longtime Southern Baptist leader Bill Mackey remembered as ‘humble servant’
July 14, 2022
Bill Mackey, a long-tenured and well-respected leader in Baptist life who served in various roles with three different state conventions, died Thursday (July 14) after
Pastor’s daughters, sister killed in collision in Illinois
July 11, 2022
An Illinois Baptist pastor’s sister and two teenage daughters were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer near Beckemeyer in Clinton County on Friday
Longtime Baptist educator Lucien E. Coleman Jr. dies at 91
June 20, 2022
Lucien E. Coleman Jr., veteran religious educator and scholar, died June 11 in Weatherford, Texas. He was 91. Coleman was born to in Lepanto, Arkansas
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