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  IMB notes ways to support returning missionaries

  With the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board expecting hundreds of missionaries to leave their positions in the coming months, the board has published a list of ways individuals and churches can support field personnel returning to the United States.

  12/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Prison church joins Baptist association

  A Louisiana Baptist association of churches now counts among its members Grace Baptist Church of the Main Camp in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

  11/27/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Missionaries facing early retirement vow to continue evangelism

  Tim and Charlotte Cearley, longtime SBC missionaries in Africa, plan to continue their ministry efforts in the United States after taking a voluntary retirement offer from the International Missions Board, part of a budget cut of 600 to 800 missionaries and staffers.

  11/25/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Abortion study finds gap between SBC official position and pew

  One-third of Protestant women who have had an abortion are Baptist—more than Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians combined, according to new statistics on abortion and church attendance collected by LifeWay Research.

  11/25/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: LifeWay reconsiders building site

  LifeWay Christian Resources has backed out of plans to build a new headquarters on 1.5 acres of downtown riverfront property.

  11/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Rural churches struggle as resources flow to urban churches

  Experts say small, rural congregations are at a disadvantage attracting members and ministers and that denominations must be intentional in assisting them.

  11/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: ERLC honors civil rights leader

  John Perkins, civil rights leader and community organizer, received the John Leland Religious Liberty Award from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

  11/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist presidents lead racial unity event in Mississippi

  In an effort to foster racial unity among Christians, leaders of America’s two largest Baptist groups—one mostly white and the other predominantly black—met with pastors in Mississippi Nov. 4 for a “Conversation on Race in America.”

  11/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: BJC leader blasts religious bigotry.

  The head of a Baptist organization dedicated to upholding religious liberty for all Americans joined Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in a pledge signed Oct. 23 in Washington denouncing all forms of religious bigotry.

  10/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Missionary sent to revive Zimbabwe seminary

  A Southern Seminary Ph.D. student and his family have moved to Zimbabwe with a mission to revive a seminary struggling since the firing of its former principal over doctrine in 2011.  From BNG

  10/22/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Court rejects settlement of Baptist home lawsuit

  A federal appeals court threw out the 2013 settlement of a lawsuit challenging state funding of a Kentucky Baptist children’s ministry, saying a judge should decide if court-ordered monitoring of alleged violations of the separation of church and state by Sunrise Children’s Services is fair.

  10/16/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Ronnie Floyd asks if SBC should consider merging mission boards

  Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd suggested merger of the convention’s two mission boards during a symposium on the denomination’s future at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo.

  10/15/2015 - By John Rutledge