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  Adult coloring books emerging as popular spiritual practice

  Using crayons, colored pens or pencils to focus the mind while praying or to contemplate Scripture can be as beneficial as walking a prayer labyrinth or creating an icon, say ministers of spiritual formation.

  09/16/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: CBF allocates funds for Syrian refugee relief

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship sent $15,000 to field personnel in Macedonia and Lebanon to assist with humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees.

  09/16/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptists aid refugees in Europe

  Baptists continue to provide assistance to more than 300,000 refugees who have streamed into Europe—the largest mass migration since World War II.

  09/16/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  IMB announces voluntary retirement incentive details

  In the first phase of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board’s plan to address revenue shortfalls, leaders announced details of a voluntary retirement incentive during meetings with personnel.

  09/11/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Baptist Briefs: Judges criticize ruling against GuideStone

  Judges criticize earlier ruling against GuideStone. S.C. Baptists seek answers from university trustees.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  IMB chief explains cutbacks in open letter

  The head of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board, which recently announced plans to cut personnel by 600 to 800 jobs over the next six months, said officials haven’t kept the agency’s financial position a secret.

  09/08/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Baptist Briefs: Church limits crowds for Carter Sunday school class

  Well-wishers flocking to Plains, Ga., to hear Jimmy Carter teach Sunday school after being diagnosed with cancer are overwhelming the relatively small Maranatha Baptist Church.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Prepare for the ‘post-everything’ age, church leaders say

  Writer and church coach says the term ‘post-everything’ sums up the variety of challenges facing the church today, from post-modernity to post-Christianity to post-denominationalism.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptists to cut missionary force by 15 percent

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board will offer incentives for voluntary early retirement in an attempt to cut between 600 and 800 jobs from the agency’s missionary force and staff.

  08/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Some church leaders seek end to ‘mission tourism’

  Parachute missions. Poverty tourism. Vacationary. Critics use these descriptors to characterize an approach to missions they believe encourages unhealthy dependency and paternalism.

  08/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Injunction extended in contraceptive case

  Baptist organizations—including the Southern Baptist Convention’s insurance provider—got temporary relief Aug. 21 from an Affordable Care Act requirement that employers include in their employee health care plans drugs and devices they believe cause abortion.

  08/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Focus on objectives during market volatility, strategist advises

  A dramatic drop in the stock market led to headlines and concerns about stockholder portfolios, but long-term investors should continue to consider their objectives and time horizons, a Southern Baptist investment strategist recommended.

  08/26/2015 - By John Rutledge