Montana Baptists name new executive director/treasurer
Mikey Mewborn, vice president of student life at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, recently accepted a call as executive director/treasurer of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention.
Prayer service held for imprisoned Chinese Christian
A Presbyterian church in Taiwan organized an Aug. 10 prayer service for a Christian human rights lawyer imprisoned by China’s
Opinion: Concerns with limiting pastoral function to pastoral office for the local church
The concern with this proposed SBC constitution amendment is whether the amendment’s prohibitive language unnecessarily expands beyond the pastoral office itself into a broad and undefined expression of “function” that could potentially lead to unnecessary and unbiblical limitations for women engaging ministerially in the local church and in local and global mission.
First person: Being part of the greatest story ever told
I grew up as a missionary kid in Asia. I was adopted at a young age into a family that
‘Home is not always safe’: The childhood trauma behind addiction
For Gloria Vick, the turning point came when she could no longer ignore a pattern she kept seeing among the women in her Celebrate Recovery class at the Putnam County Jail.
Noble shares ‘letter from John’ with SBC pastors, addresses current denominational issues
James Noble, senior pastor of Kingdom Community Church of Anderson in South Carolina, spoke during the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference.
BGCT partners with Texas church to reach out to World Cup fans in Haiti
With Haiti qualifying to compete in the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1974, First Baptist Church Nederland, Texas, partnered with First Baptist Church Damien in Haiti, to sponsor watch parties for three Haitian matches for local fans.
UPDATED: ERLC announcement reversed; Leatherwood remains; trustee chair out
The executive committee of the ERLC board of trustees announced this morning (July 23) that the action taken late yesterday by then-trustee chair Kevin Smith was not authorized. The board has stated full support of Brent Leatherwood.