Just a few days ago in Baton Rouge, a new chapter was written in the history of black and white churches. Three dozen pastors and pastoral students, both black and white, male and female, from two ...

If there’s any place in the country one should be able to find a volunteer, it’s Main Street Baptist Church in Rocky Top, ...

Today is the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Our Gospel reading comes from Mark 1:1-8 about the Preaching of John the Baptist. “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ (the Son of God). 2 As it is written ...

Gina Stewart has been known for breaking barriers in Black Baptist circles. In 1995, she became pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church and the first African American woman to be elected to a Black ...

I’m really worried about what the Reverend Robert Jeffress is going to say at Dallas First Baptist Church Sunday about the quake in Japan. I live within a three-mile radius of First Baptist, and I’m ...

Many of you have vivid memories of the old First Baptist Church in Rochester at the corner of Second Street and Fourth Avenue Southwest. Today's "Spirit" column brings back one of the pastors who left ...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - When congregants go to worship at Brookland Baptist, they never know who will be in the pew next to them. During election season, Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia ...

Johann Gerhard Oncken is a spiritual giant who has one of the most amazing stories in Baptist history. Born Jan. 26, 1800 in Varel, Germany, Oncken was raised in a ...

It’s the second Sunday of Advent and today’s gospel teaches us about the preaching of John the Baptist. That the coming of the Son of Man has been foretold is clearly depicted in the story of his ...