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baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Grace Thornton |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
JOHANNESBURG (BP) – Josh Sullivan, the pastor who was abducted by armed and masked men last week as he preached, was rescued yesterday (April 15) by police after a shootout with his captors in a nearby township. Officers in a “multi-disciplinary law enforcement operation,” said a police statement, received information that Sullivan was being held in a safe house. On approaching the house the team observed a vehicle, whose occupants attempted to flee and opened fire after seeing the officers.
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baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Grace Thornton |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): DiscipleshipFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: NASHVILLE (BP) – Sam Green, then a 2-year-old healthy toddler, longed to play with his younger brother, perhaps on the playground, perhaps riding bikes. Perhaps he could read to him and maybe they could go to the zoo. Sam had watched his mama’s belly swell and waited months for his brother Timothy Jacob Green – TJ – to be born. In Utero, TJ was diagnosed with Trisomy 18. He lived 56 days, much of it in home hospice.
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baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Grace Thornton |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
SHOCCO SPRINGS, Ala. – When Karen Gosselin picked the music a year ago for the 2025 OneVoice honor choir, she did it thoughtfully and prayerfully. But she had no idea how the perfect the lyrics would be when it came time to sing them, or that their first audience would be a cafeteria packed full of powerline workers. “We had some incredible unexpected opportunities,” she said.
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baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Karen Garcia |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
NEW ORLEANS — Chuck Kelley, president emeritus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, spoke about his journey of grief after losing his beloved wife Rhonda in his first chapel message since his retirement. Kelley’s chapel address on Thursday (March 13) marks more than a year since Rhonda’s death in February 2024.
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baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Karen Garcia |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Southwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: FORT WORTH, Texas – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program and the seminary’s role in its beginning during a Founder’s Day chapel service March 13 on the Fort Worth campus. Southwestern Seminary President David S. Dockery noted the event usually involves an address about one of the early leaders of the seminary.
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baptistpress.com | Charles Jones |Bob Smietana |Chris Doyle |Scott Barkley
Editor’s note: This piece is the second in a five-part series leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. Read the first piece here. Baptists seldom go through the effort of preparing a confession of faith unless pressured or prodded, which may explain why the SBC waited 80 years to adopt one.
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baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): SportsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: BUTLER, Tenn. (BP) – Pastor Donald Winters is accustomed to the extreme, whether it involves alligators, rattlesnakes or voluntarily risking hypothermia in icy waters every other weekday.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: GRESHAM, Ore. – Northwest Baptist Convention messengers convened Monday (Feb. 24) for a special called meeting to elect Lance Caddel, the NWBC’s director of evangelism and church health since 2022, as the convention’s next executive director-treasurer.
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baptistpress.com | Charles Jones |Tessa Sanchez |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Series: SBC DigestsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Mark Johnson named Louisiana Christian University presidentBy LCU StaffPINEVILLE, La. — The Louisiana Christian University Board of Trustees has approved Mark Johnson, the current director of the Doctor of Ministry program at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS), as the school’s 10th president, upon recommendation of the presidential search committee.
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baptistpress.com | Charles Jones |Tessa Sanchez |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): International News, PersecutionFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, Congo (BP) – The beheaded bodies of 70 Christians were found in a Protestant church in North Kivu Province in the Congo (DRC) Feb. 19, several religious freedom advocates said, blaming the extremist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). The ADF is accused of approaching homes in Mayba, in the Lumbero territory, beginning Feb. 12 and capturing as many as 100 Christians through Feb.
