
Congregation of 8 sees God bring new life, growth
Before Rick Sharp became the church’s pastor in October 2021, the eight adult members of Mount Nebo Baptist Church considered

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.

Rummage elected to lead 2024 Pastors Conference
Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage will serve as president of the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference. The conference will be

Former Angola prisoners share stories of hope with Arkansas prison chaplains
The Arkansas Baptist State Convention Missions Team recently hosted Arkansas Department of Corrections chaplains at Camp Paron for a three-day

First set of motions from messengers include transparency concerns
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Anaheim came to do business and even lined up at microphones

‘Never too late’: 85-year-old reflects on baptism after revival service
For 85 years H.L Davis was in church on Sundays and was surrounded in his home (as a child and adult) by other believers. He even was baptized as a boy in Mississippi, thinking he was saved because of it.

New chapter: Reflections on 1 year post-Roe
On the morning of June 24, 2022, the abortion landscape in the United States changed dramatically with the release of

First person: Embracing local missions opportunities is not about saving a church
“It’s about imagining the missions opportunity of neighborhoods of people as if no church had ever existed there.”