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BLACKSHEAR, Ga. (BP) – Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, announced in a video today that he has “prayerfully agreed to accept a nomination for the presidency

CUMMING, Ga. — A Michigan businessman who died more than a decade ago is helping a Georgia congregation with the cost of a new church building.

This hurting individual thanked me and left my office, and I never saw him again. But a few days later, I was summoned by a university administrator to give an account of my meeting with this gay student.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KT) - Shortly before Brent Leatherwood was formally installed as president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in March, he sat down with Kentucky Today to talk

BETTENDORF, Iowa (BP) – “Easter is about missions,” says Cory Gonyo, pastor since 2014 of First Baptist Church of Bettendorf. “It’s about God’s mission to save the nations in Jesus

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Halfway through the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s fiscal year, Cooperative Program giving is down slightly from the previous year — but there are encouraging signs when looking

(RNS) — The SBC’s Executive Committee announced it had lost $6 million over the past fiscal year, mainly due to the cost of responding to the sex abuse crisis.

LACENTER, Ky. (KT) — To say things have taken off at LaCenter First Baptist Church would be an understatement.

(RNS) — Five congregations ousted this week were the first to be expelled from the SBC on a national level for having women pastors since the ban on women pastors was instituted in 2000. 

Baptists historically have done more good and more ministry together than apart. We are stronger together, in more ways than one.