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  Church and nonprofit offer model of community partnership

  A Baptist church and a nonprofit agency, both in Indianapolis, Ind., worked together to help make their community a place “where the world is welcome.”

  06/20/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  View collegiate ministry as a mission, workshop leader urges

  When income decreases at a church or Baptist state convention, collegiate ministry may be one of the first areas cut in the budget, but Wanda Kidd wants to see that change.

  06/20/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Preaching professor challenges CBF to live into ‘oneness’

  Living into “oneness instead of sameness” can be challenging, Jerusha Neal, assistant professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School, told the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly.

  06/18/2018 - By Carrie McGuffin and Aaron Weaver / Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

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  Church should bring about transformation, speakers tell CBF

  The church should flex its muscle to bring about transformation, not to sustain power or cling to the past, a Tennessee pastor told the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in Dallas.

  06/18/2018 - By Carrie McGuffin and Aaron Weaver / Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

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  CBF assembly spotlights ministry in Texas and Southwest

  Most Hispanic Baptist pastors have no time or energy for “the latest Baptist hashtag battles,” because they are too busy ministering to families facing challenges produced by the immigration system, Jesse Rincones told the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly.

  06/15/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Baptist Women in Ministry urged: ‘Dare to be brave’

  In times of rising hostility, exclusivity and hate that bring divisions, Christians should strive to understand how God hears and sees people whom others neglect, speakers urged Baptist Women in Ministry.

  06/15/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Paynter urges CBF to break sex abuse ‘culture of complicity’

  Suzii Paynter challenged the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to “break a culture of complicity” in regard to clergy sexual abuse.

  06/15/2018 - By Carrie McGuffin / Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

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  SBC apologizes to abused women, clings to traditional roles

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas approved resolutions offering an apology to abuse survivors and affirming the dignity of women, while also emphasizing women’s “distinctive God-assigned roles.”

  06/14/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Messengers debate action of Southwestern Seminary trustees

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention debated—and defeated—a motion to dismiss Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s trustee executive committee.

  06/14/2018 - By Brian Koonce / The Pathway

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  Hispanic Southern Baptists hear calls to unity

  Hispanic Baptists heard calls for unity—organizationally and in individual relations—throughout multiple gatherings held in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

  06/14/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Gaines insists ‘big God’ can lift Southern Baptists

  Believing and trusting in the supernatural abilities of God are key to overcoming all obstacles the Southern Baptist Convention is facing, said Steve Gaines, who completed his second year as the convention’s president.

  06/13/2018 - By David Dawson

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  Crossover events and Harvest America crusade proclaim gospel

  Evangelistic emphases prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas produced 4,229 professions of faith in Christ, including 2,339 at a crusade event at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

  06/13/2018 - By Josie Rabbitt Bingham / Baptist Press