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  Watchman on the wall: Brent Walker reflects on 25 years in D.C.

  For 25 years, Brent Walker has observed the religious-liberty landscape from a perch at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court. Baptist News Global asked him to look back over his quarter-century on the “serpentine wall” of church-state separation.

  02/19/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Alabama convention warns against gay weddings

  Churches of Southern Baptist ministers who conduct marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples in Alabama risk losing their standing with the Alabama Baptist Convention.

  02/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  LifeWay trustees authorize sale of headquarters

  Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources have authorized the administration to sell all or part of the Southern Baptist Convention publisher’s campus in Nashville, Tenn., for what a broker determines to be a fair market value.

  02/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Some churches find missional niche in health and wellness

  Churches seeking ministry niches are eying health and fitness facilities and ministries. But the missional use of wellness is nothing new in American Christianity.

  02/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptist leader urges churches to confront suicide

  Every minister will encounter the “serious and tragic reality” of suicide, Southern Baptist Convention leader Frank Page advised students at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in a recent chapel address.

  02/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Fostering multiethnic churches easier said than done, pastors say

  In the wake of police killings of blacks in places like Ferguson, Mo., and New York City,  some conservative Christian leaders are calling for churches to embrace integration. But others who have been hard at work for years trying to do just that say it’s harder than it seems.

  02/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: BJC opposes Carolina voucher plan

  North Carolina’s new school voucher law—which allows families to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private schools—violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and allies said in a brief to the state Supreme Court.

  02/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: GuideStone releases tax guide for ministers

  The 2015 edition of GuideStone Financial Resources’ annual Tax Return Preparation and Federal Reporting Guide, Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2014 Returns is available.

  01/30/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptists represented at ecumenical gathering on believers’ baptism

  Instances of “indiscriminate baptism” as well as the practice of admitting unbaptized persons into church membership remain challenges to a Baptist understanding of the ordinance of baptism.

  01/30/2015 - By Bob Allen / Baptist News Global

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  BWA taps CBF as U.N. liaison for religious liberty

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has agreed to function as liaison for religious liberty on behalf of the Baptist World Alliance, CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter reported to the group’s Governing Board.

  01/24/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Ergun Caner steps down from college post

  Ergun Caner, the controversial president of Georgia Baptist Convention-affiliated Brewton-Parker College, resigned Jan. 20, saying his son’s suicide six months ago has left him emotionally unequipped to provide the kind of leadership the institution needs.

  01/22/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  WMU board focuses on missions discipleship in postmodern culture

  Woman’s Missionary Union will focus on three strategic objectives during the coming four years, WMU Executive Director Wanda Lee told the organization’s national and state leaders during its winter board meeting.

  01/22/2015 - By John Rutledge