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  Interracial nativity brainchild of two Nashville Baptist pastors

  One-month-old Luke Molette was the nativity centerpiece, an African-American baby portraying Jesus in the arms of his mother Mary as a white Joseph sat at their side, flocked by an interracial chorus.

  12/19/2018 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Kentucky couple share God’s love from a diaper bag

  Bessie and Lester McPeek are known widely as the Diaper Lady and the Diaper Man. They wouldn’t want it any other way.

  12/14/2018 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Report ties Southern Seminary founders to slaveholding

  Founders of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary owned more than 50 slaves and defended the “righteousness of slaveholding,” a new report states.

  12/13/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Palm Beach Atlantic founder Jess Moody dies at 93

  Jess Moody, a visionary evangelistic pastor who influenced the field of education and the entertainment industry, died Dec. 7 in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 93.

  12/11/2018 - By Art Toalston / Baptist Press

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  Mudding and drinking truck thrives on new path

  A couple of years ago, Terry Billings saw his old truck sitting in the field, weeds growing up through it. Then he heard God’s instruction—to take that old truck and make something new out of it.

  12/10/2018 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

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  Baptist editor Bob Terry bids farewell after 50 years

  When Bob Terry retires, his peers probably will point to his 50 years of faithful service in denominational journalism. But Terry’s most lasting legacy in the hearts of Alabama Baptists likely may be the vulnerable honesty with which he shared his grief after the sudden death of his first wife in 1998.

  12/10/2018 - By Kay Campbell / Religion News Service

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  Baptist communicator W.C. Fields dies at age 96

  Wilmer C. Fields, a pioneer in Christian communications and advocate for freedom of the press, died Dec. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. He was 96.

  12/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  SBC seminary appoints women’s support coordinator

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed its first “women’s support coordinator” to address any gender-related “difficulties or challenges” that women encounter on its campus.

  12/03/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  South Carolina church honors memory of enslaved members

  A South Carolina congregation took an official step to honor the memory of past members of the church who were enslaved prior to 1865.

  11/29/2018 - By Baptist Courier Staff

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  Churches seek to help solve foster care crisis in Oklahoma

  Cody and Breanna Brumley set out to change how their Oklahoma Baptist congregation related to families involved in foster care and adoption, creating a Wednesday night fellowship meal and support group.

  11/28/2018 - By Bobby Ross Jr. / Religion News Service

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  T-shirt dresses become worldwide ministry

  Since volunteers launched the We Sew Love ministry at a church in Birmingham, Ala., they have sent hundreds of clothing items made from old T-shirts to children in Uganda, Zambia, Haiti and other places around the world.

  11/27/2018 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

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  Waco pastor featured in first documentary of women ministers

  Mary Alice Birdwhistell, pastor of Calvary Baptist in Waco, is the subject of the first in a series of documentaries about women in ministry co-produced by Ethics Daily and Baptist Women in Ministry.

  11/20/2018 - By Eric Black / Editor