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Southern Baptists and religious liberty
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) Adam W. Jones & Jackson Carter / Ouachita Baptist University As questions surrounding religious liberty continue to generate conversation in the modern political sphere, Baptists have consistently and historically affirmed their belief in religious freedom for all. In his book Baptists and Religious…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are gospel-centered
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (679+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists I write to you from Toronto, Canada, where the Baptist World Alliance is celebrating its annual gathering. With the theme “One Gospel, Many People,” we are praying together, joining in worship, learning through breakout sessions, and…...
Editorial: What a Baptist institution is for
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (806+ words) Eric Black / Editor I’m going to put some things in print some may consider impolite or imprudent. Perhaps so. Here we go. By “Baptist institution,” I’m referring to the tens of thousands of churches Baptists have started, as well as…...
Voices: Some truth and unity for Texas Baptists
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1672+ words) The SBC has spoken. Now Texas Baptists must decide who we will be. Pentecost. It is 9 in the morning in Jerusalem, and the Spirit falls. Wind. Fire. Ordinary men and women spill into the street, speaking the wonders of God…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are servant-hearted
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (675+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists In his 1970 essay, leadership guru Robert K. Greenleaf wrote: “The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead....
The Baptist Network forms as a new national connection
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (584+ words) Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard The Baptist Network, a new network designed to connect a diverse group of Baptist leaders across the nation, recently formed to encourage one another amid shifting social and political tensions across affiliations and organizations. The group…...
A Christian nation? At 250, America still fighting over what that means
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (285+ words) Bob Smietana / Religion News Service (RNS)—When people ask Holly Hollman if America is a Christian nation, she has a simple response. “What do you mean by that?” The longtime general counsel of the Washington, D.C.-based Baptist Joint…...
Voices: Texas Baptists are kingdom-collaborating
3+ week, 3+ day ago (854+ words) Julio Guarneri / Texas Baptists This past Sunday, I had the privilege of preaching at the South Garland Baptist Church in Garland, a Texas Baptists church with a long-standing commitment to the Cooperative Program and cooperative missions. On Monday, we met…...
Pressley to Southern Baptists: ‘Walk worthy’ of the call
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (584+ words) SBC President Clint Pressley addresssing 2026 SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. (Screenshot) Eric Black / Editor Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., addressed messengers to the 2026 SBC annual meeting in…...
Editorial: Women ministers and Baptist principles
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1079+ words) Eric Black / Editor In an effort to save the Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings from devolving into disfellowshipping events, Al Mohler plans to make a motion this year to accomplish that in one fell swoop. That’s a negative and cynical…...