New Liberty Baptist Church in Owen County has been experiencing a season of renewal and revival. Over the past two weeks, ...

Asking a Baptist preacher to baptize is like asking Colonel Sanders if he wants a bucket of chicken. Somebody’s going to get dunked. So when a football coach in Villa Rica, Georgia asked to be ...

Zion Baptist Church’s congregation is closing its 150th year in prayer. The church is holding a New Year’s Eve celebration and baptism from 10 p.m. to midnight, according to its website. The church, ...

A ramp where fishermen cast their lines and jet skis are launched served another purpose this weekend as a pilgrimage of cars rolled to the water’s edge. “Take us to the water,” said one woman as the ...

New rules also loosen restrictions on baptism, divorce, and parents of teenagers. For more than a decade, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB) disqualified candidates ...

There are now more Southern Baptist churches than ever before: 46,449 as of last year. And more than 200,000 extra spaces in the pews. As the nation’s largest Protestant group prepares to meet in ...

In some evangelical churches, a once-staid ritual is returning to its informal roots — and things sometimes get “a little rowdy” along the way. Waves crashing over Paul Allen and Jimmy Scroggins of ...