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‘Crying’: Churches losing members, leaders as legal immigration programs end | Baptist Press
MIAMI (BP) – They are pastors, deacons, and other clergy, actively working among the 500 Haitian churches in the Southern Baptist Convention – at least for another four weeks.
Team chaplain, BSU reach University of Southern Mississippi athletes throughout the week | Baptist Press
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — How can ministry effectively breach the eventful schedule of a college athlete without forcibly dragging him from the practice field to the pew?
FIRST-PERSON: Is your heart too cluttered? | Baptist Press
In Luke 8:14, Jesus said, “As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.”
Parents find purpose, ministry opportunity through young son’s health struggles | Baptist Press
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (BP) -- When Grant Falls was born in 2022, his parents, Laura and Seth, had a traumatic start to life with their son.
BIBLE STUDY: Lessons learned in storms | Baptist Press
While we don’t understand the reasons for the storms, we must learn how to navigate through these storms in our lives, even when the purpose or end is unclear.
ERLC hosts pastors in DC to deliver ‘Defund’ letters, visit Cruz, Lankford, Johnson | Baptist Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) — Sixteen pastors met with fellow Southern Baptists congressional leaders this week.
Georgia religious freedom bill in House; judge applies Utah law to mushroom use | Baptist Press
ATLANTA (BP) – As Georgia’s General Assembly continues its month-long push to pass a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a judge has ruled Utah’s RFRA protects a religious center’s practice of using illegal psychedelic mushrooms.
Union women’s basketball season ends in NCAA Division II national semifinals | Baptist Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (BP) -- The Union University women’s basketball team fell to Cal State Dominguez Hills 68-50 Wednesday evening in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II national tournament at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.
Boyce College’s Daniel Smith named 2025 Pete Maravich Award recipient | Baptist Press
The National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) announced Daniel Smith of Boyce College as the recipient of the 2025 Pete Maravich Award for Men’s Basketball.
Gallup study shows pandemic’s lingering effects on kids’ social skills, mental health | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP)—Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, a Gallup study is sharing parents’ perspectives on how that time has affected their children’s social skills and mental health, as well as its impact on academics.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: SEBTS counseling conference; MBTS Scudder Lecture | Baptist Press
Redeem and Restore 2025: Southeastern hosts new counseling conference; Walker delivers Midwestern’s Scudder Lecture on ‘A Public Theology of Free Speech.’
Pressley names 2025 Registration Committee | Baptist Press
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (BP)—SBC President Clint Pressley announced Friday, March 21, that Jonathan Coleman will chair the Registration Committee for the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas in June.
Christian schools forced to close for Ramadan in four northern Nigeria states | Baptist Press
NORTHERN NIGERIA (BP) -- Four of the 12 states in northern Nigeria where Muslims are under Sharia law have closed all schools for Ramadan, including Christian schools, raising objections from Christian groups.
Topeka church baptizes 12 members of college baseball team, product of intentional discipleship | Baptist Press
TOPEKA, Kans. (BP) — They lined up on March 2, ready to enter the baptistry at First Southern Baptist Church. College athletes, all of them.
FIRST-PERSON: Should religious charter schools be funded by public tax money? | Baptist Press
A recent New York Times opinion piece titled “The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention,” penned by Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, longtime U.S.
TODD FISHER: What I’ve gained on this journey | Baptist Press
Friends, thank you for praying for me as I continue on my journey to recovery after the major car accident I experienced last July.
Six months after Hurricane Helene’s landfall, Southern Baptists continue assisting in rebuild | Baptist Press
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Southern Baptists have been engaged in bringing relief to survivors of Hurricane Helene since the storm made landfall last Sept. 26.
Current moment provides the greatest chance yet of defunding Planned Parenthood | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) — Pro-life groups have longed for the day that no taxpayer dollars are sent to Planned Parenthood.
Lifeline agency ‘key’ in bipartisan letter urging Trump action on Chinese adoptions | Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP) – A bipartisan congressional letter with more than 100 signatures has been delivered to President Donald Trump urging him to open discussions with China regarding its discontinued intercountry adoption program that left nearly 300 U.S. families in limbo.
Ukraine war zone enlists Christian ministry as spiritual first responders | Baptist Press
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (BP) – The city of Zaporizhzhia is vulnerable to Russian attack, adjacent to cities in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast and a treasured nuclear power plant Russia captured since renewing its assault on Ukraine in February 2022.