
‘Opportunity to grow’: AZ students share impact of discipleship retreat
A total of 198 students recently gathered from 16 college campuses across Arizona for Surge, Christian Challenge’s annual discipleship retreat, at Granite Hills Retreat and Conference Center in Prescott.

Bivocational pastor honored to lead 3 churches — with God’s help
Holding down a full-time job while also pastoring a church is not for the faint of heart. Lee Wright, who is a bivocational pastor leading three churches, says God makes it possible.

Law Amendment fails on second vote by SBC messengers
In a highly anticipated vote on the final day of this year’s SBC Annual Meeting, messengers narrowly defeated the proposed Law Amendment which specified that only men can serve “as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”

Russian education department closes 4 Protestant seminaries
MOSCOW, Russia — Four Protestant theological institutions in Russia have either had their higher education licenses revoked or annulled or

First person: Jesus left Heaven to make a home in a manger
“We cannot truly experience Christmas until we bow before Jesus as God in human flesh. Fully appreciating His cradle requires our first acknowledging His crown,” writes pastor Adam Dooley.

Thai-American couple sharing hope in Land of the Rising Sun
Jack Wattanawongsawang and his wife, Prinna Puakpong, watched the news on March 11, 2011, documenting the triple disaster unfolding in

SBC 2025 preview: All eyes on Dallas — What will be the big issues this year?
Southern Baptists will be gathering soon in Dallas for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting (June 10–11), which is expected to draw well over 10,000 people.

SWBTS, Dockery ‘grateful’ for Carroll Park sale
The sale represents one step in the seminary’s ongoing plan to “reduce our campus footprint and the resource commitment it takes to maintain it.”