Digital Bible Institute revolutionizes follow-up, training for missions laborers
For decades, a continuing concern for short-term missions teams has been the follow-up with new converts. Have the new converts
Ray Gentry, associational missions leader, shifts to full-time role
Ray Gentry, part-time president of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders since 2015, will move into a full-time role
Crypto what? Gulf Coast church ‘dipping toe’ into Bitcoin option
In September, Back Bay Church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, became the first known Southern Baptist church to offer cryptocurrency as
Former Southern Baptist missionary Anneli Valtonen Dotson dies at 92
Anneli Valtonen Dotson, former Southern Baptist missionary to Zimbabwe and Namibia, died Oct. 4. She was 92. Dotson was born
Pressley urges SBC messengers to ‘hold fast’ to their conviction, cooperation
Recalling his early years playing football, Clint Pressley recalled how there were some players he was friends with and some
Explore the Bible Sunday School Lesson for January 2
EZEKIEL WARNS Ezekiel 28:11–19, 25–26 Ezekiel records a series of judgment oracles against the nations in Chapters 25 through 38.
Engaging the lost years of congregations
Interventions may occur during pastor transitions, strategic planning efforts or the construction of a new building. Otherwise, the underlying, less visible issues of the life cycle of congregations are ineffectively addressed.
Study argues religion decline worldwide follows predictable sequence
“We hope this article is useful as a kind of grand narrative about what’s going on in the world, a model of how to see global religious change,” Conrad Hackett, one of the authors, told RNS.