
Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson dies
James C. Dobson — founder of Focus on the Family, one of the world’s largest faith-based organizations — died Aug. 21. He was 89.

Unaffiliated the only growing religious group in U.S., study shows
Religious churn has been a key fixture of U.S. religion for a long time, but a new survey of changes in American religion finds that motion is not so much a swirling but a one-way stream heading out.

GCR Task Force files (part 3): Dallas-Fort Worth meeting sparks ‘polarized’ discussion
Staff members of The Baptist Paper, a sister publication to The Alabama Baptist and part of TAB Media Group, continue

Social media ad leads to Bible studies, baptisms
The phone buzzed, flashing an unidentified caller ID. The Middle Eastern pastor deliberated before accepting the call. It wasn’t spam but a voice from the past.

IMB sending celebration shares stories of 52 new missionaries with convention messengers
For years, it was a “joy” for Ben Ward to serve as a missions professor and pastor who trained and

‘Overwhelmed’ while ministering to Ukrainian refugees, a first-person account
By Ralph Stevens Special to The Baptist Paper Medyka, Poland — it’s a place where the people have a few

GA, KY Baptists share updates from Israel, working to travel home
Members of a tour group from Georgia and a Kentucky Baptist are among other Southern Baptists in the Holy Land but are safe, four days after Hamas militants bombarded Israel with rockets in a surprise attack.

Bellevue pastor Steve Gaines diagnosed with kidney cancer
“I speak for our entire Tennessee network of churches when I say that we are praying for our friends, Steve and Donna, their children and grandchildren, and the Bellevue family,” said Randy C. Davis of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.