Fair trade impacts lives through purchases
May 14, 2009
By Martine G. Bates A woman in Alabama buys a beautiful candleholder as a gift for a friend. It pleases the giver and the receiver.
‘Outed’ blogger sues police, state prosecutors
May 14, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A formerly anonymous blogger who criticized his prominent Southern Baptist pastor has sued police and state prosecutors for revealing his identity to
April, year-to-date CP giving down from 2008
May 14, 2009
NASHVILLE — Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) for April 2009 totaled $15,600,936.66 — 1.04 percent, or $164,081.21, below the $15,765,017.87
Southern Seminary closes school of church music
April 30, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is closing its 65-year-old school of church music and worship, combining it with the school of leadership and
Giving to SBC missions up; members, baptisms down
April 30, 2009
NASHVILLE — Southern Baptists gave 2.3 percent more to missions last year despite the economic downturn but they lost members and baptized the fewest number
GuideStone to launch electronic account statements
April 30, 2009
DALLAS — GuideStone Financial Resources will launch a new look and feel to its participant account statements beginning in July. The new statements will include
WMU Foundation awards $163,445 for missions
April 23, 2009
BIRMINGHAM — The national Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) Foundation board of trustees awarded $163,445 to boost missions work in North America and around the world
SBC sets no policy on divorced pastors; some churches more willing to call them
April 23, 2009
Southern Baptists have a reputation for drawing a hard line on pastors and divorce, but more and more it seems that laypeople are willing to
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