SBC news nuggets to know this week

Welcome to The Weekly, produced by TAB Media Group, which publishes The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines read by TAB Media Group staff and volunteers. New episodes are released weekly on Wednesday mornings. Jennifer Rash reports from outside the SBC Annual Meeting convention hall with some of the stories coming out of this year’s meeting in Dallas. Find out more HERE

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Violence against Nigerian believers claims ever more lives

August 20, 2026

Three Christians were gunned down in one Nigerian state, and funerals were held for 30 individuals massacred in another state.

First person: 10 reasons some churches will not reach college students

August 20, 2026

I love college students. In fact, I’d want to be pastoring in a university town if the Lord called me back to the senior pastorate.

Southern Baptist chaplain promoted to rank of rear admiral

August 19, 2026

U.S. Navy Chaplain Robert Christian, an alumnus of both New Orleans and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminaries, was recently promoted to the rank of rear admiral (lower half).

Overnight fire destroys Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pennington

August 19, 2026

The community of Pennington lost the Ebenezer Baptist Church building to a fire overnight. “It’s a total loss,” said Jerry Snowden, who is chair of the church’s deacons.