ACWORTH, Ga. – Responses vary when people hear that Summit Baptist Church Associate Pastor Jimmy Slick donated one of his kidneys to a church member.

Peyton gave her heart to Jesus last Wednesday night.  She’s eight.  (She had been asking her parents questions about Him and wanted to be saved.) 

“Might as Well Embrace this Season of Life” By David Chancey A man came in from his golf game and his wife asked, “How’d you do?”“Well, I was driving pretty …

MARION, Ala. (AP) — Bullet holes pock a rusted mailbox outside the vacant home where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953. Part of the old wooden structure has collapsed, as have nearby utility buildings.

LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca recorded a big jump in revenue on Thursday as it begins to take a profit from its coronavirus vaccine for the first time. The company recorded full-year revenues of …

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans advanced a bill Wednesday that would ban the delivery of abortion pills by mail and require women to be examined by a physician in person before the pills are dispensed.

ASHLAND, Ky. - She stood, as she did for the last 59 years, impressive and dignified, on a tract of land nestled between the Kentucky hills and the Ohio River.  Once a proud image of Armco Steel Works Ashland plant, Amanda, a 234-foot-tall blast furnace, was about to meet her end.

One week into his new role as interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, Willie McLaurin told Baptist editors, “In this season, the Lord is allowing us to hit the reset button. He’s allowing us to really just say, ‘What is it that we’re really trying to do?’”

Jesus said, “The harvest is truly great, but the labors are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send fourth labors into the field.” (Luke 10:2)In the early …

Danielle Cobo has an amazing story. This woman’s life story reads like an action movie script: kidnapped as a baby, met her father at age 15, and lost her mother to suicide.  

Odell Beckham Jr. cheered Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase two short years ago, enjoying every minute as the duo led their alma mater LSU to the national championship. He also knew he'd be seeing …

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a bustling Colorado supermarket, Teri Leiker called her mother to tell her how excited she was to return from vacation to her job as a …

NASHVILLE (BP) – In its most recent update, the Sex Abuse Task Force reported that Guidepost Solutions has interviewed approximately 32 current and former SBC Executive Committee staff, 54 current or former EC trustees and abuse survivors “who have affirmatively reached out to the Guidepost investigative team.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When thinking about ministry difficulties, pastors say they’re most concerned with growing the people inside the church and reaching those outside it.

DULUTH, Ga. (BP) – Established with a focus on supporting missionaries as well as presenting readers "a compendious summary of the passing tidings of the times,” Georgia’s The Christian Index launched a movement 200 years ago that predated all other Southern Baptist state papers and Baptist Press as a denominational news source.

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 485,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outdoors because they can catch fire even if the engines have been turned off.

I recently went on a mission trip to Ecuador with pastors from two churches in the West Central Region of Georgia. I volunteer as a virtual strategy coordinator with the GA Baptist Mission Board. As …

The lights had just come on for the intermission of my daughter’s spring musical when we got the news.  In response to the risk associated with the new virus her school was transitioning to remote learning and all extracurricular activities were cancelled, including the performances of her last high school musical production. 

NBC’s Mike Tirico began Friday’s opening ceremony by saying, “just over six months ago in Tokyo, we said we were about to embark on an Olympics unlike any other. Now we’re about to top …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China in the U.N. Security Council on Monday over the usefulness and impact of U.N. sanctions, which are currently …

The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled in San Antonio on Monday.

DULUTH, Ga. – Studies show daily Bible reading not only nourishes the soul but also builds character.  And that’s why Scott Sullivan, discipleship catalyst on the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s Church Strengthening team, is calling for people to get back to reading scripture every day.

Marty Guy has been named the new church planting catalyst for the West Metro Baptist Association.Guy, together with his family, previously served as an IMB missionary to East Asia, primarily focused …

COLQUITT, Ga. – Jane Merritt, a visionary Southern Baptist who was involved in the creation of Camp Pinnacle in the Georgia mountains, died Thursday at VITAS Suites, a hospice facility in Panama City, Fla. She was 98.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Several of the world's top government leaders line up on Monday to walk the diplomatic tightrope that could mean the difference between war and an uneasy peace in Ukraine as …