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baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Jayson Larson |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
NEW ORLEANS – The 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program was celebrated during chapel at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary throughout the spring 2025 semester. A series of videos shared during several chapel services featured NOBTS faculty members discussing the history and importance of the Cooperative Program. Faculty participants included Thomas Strong, Greg Wilton and Chris Shaffer.
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baptistpress.com | Jayson Larson |Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley
When many Christians imagine unreached people groups, they envision dense jungles and dusty trails. They see villages full of sun-baked huts with thatched roofs housing exotic natives in some of the most remote, difficult-to-reach places on the planet. In Europe, those unreached people aren’t hidden and they aren’t hard to reach. There are 820 million of them, and almost none of them know Jesus. Only 1.1 percent of Europe’s residents are evangelical.
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baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): EducationFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – It was a drive not many would attempt given the circumstances. But this was no ordinary road trip. Shante Agnew had just earned her Master of Education degree from Carson-Newman University, and all the pieces were in place for her to reap her reward at the May 2 commencement ceremony.
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baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Share this post: NASHVILLE (BP) – La Convención Bautista del Sur (SBC) y otros demandados perdieron una apelación en un tribunal de distrito de Tennessee, pero han recurrido ante la Corte Suprema de Tennessee. El caso, Preston Garner y otros contra la Convención Bautista del Sur y otros, se refiere a una investigación realizada por el Comité de Credenciales de la SBC en el curso del seguimiento de un informe confidencial realizado a la línea directa de abusos de la SBC.
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baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Share this post: DALLAS (BP) – Un grupo de 10 expresidentes de la Convención Bautista del Sur (SBC) ha publicado una carta en la que expresan su apoyo a la continuación de la Comisión de Ética y Libertad Religiosa (ERLC) de la SBC. La carta, publicada el jueves (22 de mayo), dice que la ERLC “durante décadas” ha “defendido firmemente nuestro compromiso bautista del sur con la libertad religiosa”.
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baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
NUEVA ORLEANS (BP) – Greg Mathias, profesor de misiones globales en el Seminario Teológico Bautista de Nueva Orleans (NOBTS), dijo a Baptist Press que el fin de semana pasado, mientras se encontraba en Jackson Square, probablemente pasó junto a cinco adivinos y tarotistas, algo habitual en ese lugar. Pero según Pew Research, muchos cristianos en Estados Unidos no se limitan experimentar ese mismo fenómeno.
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baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
DALLAS (BP) – Resolutions to be presented to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting include calls to ban sports betting and pornography and strong statements on the natural family and religious liberty. The SBC Committee on Resolutions released its proposed resolutions May 30. “Resolutions are not binding, but they are clarifying.
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baptistpress.com | Karen L. Willoughby |Aaron Earls |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Mental HealthFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. DALLAS (BP) – Most Wednesdays, Chris Hilliard finalized plans for evening Bible study at the church he’s pastored in North Carolina for nearly a decade, but on the Wednesday of Feb. 12, he instead “tried to O.D. on medication,” he told Baptist Press. “I say tried,” he emphasized.
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baptistpress.com | Karen L. Willoughby |Aaron Earls |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Mental HealthFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: February twelfth, two thousand and twenty-five. It will be a Wednesday that I will never forget even though there is much about that day I do not remember. A day that I often spent preparing and finalizing notes for an evening Bible study would instead see me in an ambulance and others fighting for my life. It would eventually lead me to stepping away from pastoral ministry and entering a season of healing.
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baptistpress.com | Karen L. Willoughby |Aaron Earls |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): EvangelismFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: ELEELE, Kauai, Hawaii – A 13-hour plane ride. Casual (and not so casual) conversation between strangers. That’s how the story started for Yao Yao. Harvest stories are to be celebrated, Pastor Larry Hale says, but so too should be the sowing and the watering. “Everybody has a part to play,” Hale told Baptist Press. He’s pastor of Eleele Baptist Church on Kauai. “I am so proud to be Southern Baptist.
