‘Brotherhood Remnant’ podcast tells former commission’s story
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Laymen serve in their churches as deacons and elders, Sunday School teachers, committee members, disaster relief volunteers and in various boards and committees of the Southern Baptist Convention and 40-plus state Baptist conventions.
50 years later, layman’s legacy of Owen Cooper still shines
YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Owen Cooper wasn’t a Baptist when he left for college, intending to be a Presbyterian as was his mother. But he happened to “get hold of a Baptist Bible,” leading the young Mississippian into a faith journey that helped shape Southern Baptists during the latter half of the 20th century.
Book chronicles Adrian Rogers’ zeal amid NASA’s race to the moon
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – A dozen or so miles from NASA’s launch pads at Cape Canaveral, a new pastor – Adrian Rogers – asserted in a sermon, “God has given us a golden opportunity” that “very few people get to see.”
Throat cancer fails to loosen his grip on God’s sovereignty
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (BP) – “Don’t feel sorry for me,” Ernest Easley writes in a new book. A feeding tube is how he gets nourishment. He struggles to speak.
Paul Pressler, disgraced Conservative Resurgence strategist, dies at 94
HOUSTON (BP) – Paul Pressler, the Texas judge whose grassroots strategy redirected the Southern Baptist Convention, died June 7, 2024, in Houston, Texas, three days after his 94th birthday and less than six months after the settlement of a lawsuit alleging decades-long sexual assault by Pressler against multiple victims.
Baptist communicators trek to mission board headquarters
RICHMOND, Va. – Imagine, this is a story about a fairly nondescript building. Even so: “This is a holy place where missionaries around the world are supported and encouraged,” Sharon Mager said after being at the International Mission Board’s headquarters in Richmond for the Baptist Communicators Association annual workshop.
FIRST-PERSON: Intercessory plea for SBC
Southern Baptists, let us not give up on prayer. Despite the monumental issues we face, we must not forget that, in God’s heart, prayer is far more monumental.
Sexuality: God’s design best learned in church, not TikTok
“The only way to set these things straight is to confront them head on, talking honestly, openly and unashamedly” to counter “the lies of Satan that seek to destroy them,” Kyndra said.
West Point cadet’s faith becomes path from jealousy
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Amid the rigors of basic training at the U.S. Military Academy, Austin Hemminger asked an out-of-the-blue question to a fellow West Point cadet aboard a troop transport vehicle:
Junior Hill, ‘country preacher’ embraced by the SBC, dies
HARTSELLE, Ala. (BP) – Junior Hill, a beloved and in-demand evangelist among Southern Baptists for more than 50 years, died Jan. 3 at his home in Hartselle, Ala. He was 87.
