Steven Curtis Chapman

January 9, 2014

The Glorious Unfolding Provident Label Group LLC Steven Curtis Chapman’s first original record since his 2009 release “Beauty Will Rise,” “The Glorious Unfolding” follows almost

Faith sustains Smokies’ center fielder Szczur

January 9, 2014

Matt Szczur, a 2013 Southern League All-Star baseball player and the center fielder for the Tennessee Smokies (the Chicago Cubs’ AA affiliate in the Southern

Baptist universities, nuns defeat contraception mandate

January 9, 2014

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Supreme Court justice granted an order of Roman Catholic nuns a last-minute reprieve from the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. The order

Respect for clergy drops; pollsters attribute to sex abuse

January 9, 2014

WASHINGTON — Clergy used to rank near the top in polls asking Americans to rate the honesty and ethics of people in various professions. In

Methodist pastor defrocked for officiating gay wedding

January 9, 2014

LEBANON, Pa. — Frank Schaefer was defrocked by United Methodist officials in Pennsylvania on Dec. 19, 2013, after he refused to conform to denominational rules

ESPN hires Tebow as analyst for new SEC Network

January 9, 2014

Bristol, Conn. — Tim Tebow is returning to football — not as a player, but as an analyst for ESPN. The former University of Florida

Baptist leaders examine ministry in ‘new marriage culture’

January 9, 2014

Baptist leaders focused on the legal, political, biblical and practical issues related to the country’s changing definition of marriage during the recent “Ministering in the