Stetzer calls it straight

Statistics recently released from LifeWay Christian Resources reveal that the Southern Baptist Convention has clearly peaked, and is in decline. Not only are baptisms down for the seventh year out of the last eight, but even membership numbers, a highly inflated...

Conflicts, but no conspiracy

North Carolina is loaded with Baptist folk who love missions and enjoy attending mission-related meetings. Three of the most popular are traditionally held in the spring of each year: the North Carolina Missions Conference sponsored by N.C. Baptist Men (NCBM), the...

The greening of the church

Earth Day has come and gone, and while some conservative stalwarts continue to deny human impact on global warming — or see no need to care for the earth since they anticipate Armaggedon — more and more Christians are recognizing the need to be good...

Of carts and horses

The undergraduate program that successfully boosted enrollment at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has a new name: instead of “Southeastern College at Wake Forest,” which had caused some confusion about whether it was related to Wake Forest...

Chi Rho — fantastico!

Good news is for sharing. So are good experiences, or new discoveries.There’s nothing really new about Chi Rho, a Christian men’s a cappella ensemble made of up students at Wake Forest University. They’ve been around since 1991, and various versions...