
‘Speak boldly’: Evan Lenow installed as ERLC president
Familiar faces of the Southern Baptist Convention gathered Sept. 15 for the installation of Evan Lenow as president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

Connecting reliable data with Kingdom growth
Over the past four years, I have written more than 100 columns for TAB Media Group through The Alabama Baptist and/or The Baptist Paper, focusing on congregations and associations. Now it is time to make a shift.

SBC EC meeting coverage begins tonight; here’s how to watch
SBC Executive Committee members have made their way to the Nashville area for their fall meeting (Sept. 21-22). The Baptist Paper team will provide updates from the meeting, so stay tuned for highlights.

Seminary students, leaders help identify WWII remains
This summer, an excavation team with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s Michael and Sara Moskau Institute of Archaeology traveled to Italy to search for the remains of fallen World War II soldiers.

Colombia’s churches scrambling to assess damage following deadly earthquake
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on the morning of Monday, Aug. 10. The Colombian Geological Service placed the epicenter near San José del Palmar, in the department of Chocó.

‘Alarming deterioration’: 5 Nigerian Christians killed at mining site in Plateau state
Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (June 16) killed five Christians in a mining site Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said.

First person: What do Christian funerals really communicate?
Something isn’t adding up. Nearly every Sunday we sing about heaven. We preach the resurrection. We quote Paul’s words that “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” But do we really believe it?

Meredith Flynn named executive director of Baptist Communicators Association
The Baptist Communicators Association has named veteran communicator Meredith Flynn as the group’s next executive director. Flynn has served in