INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Southern Baptists will once again welcome former Vice President Mike Pence to their annual meeting in June. The onetime Republican governor of Indiana will headline a lunch event sponsored by the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission entitled, “Navigating Faith in the Public Square: A Conversation with Mike Pence” at the convention’s annual meeting on June 11 at 11:30 a... read more

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Get to work in the harvest, Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber challenged the 301 graduates of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College during spring commencement held May 3 on the Fort Worth campus... read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Pastor Jack Homesley posed a sobering question at the start of Calvary Baptist Church of Charlotte’s midweek prayer service on Wednesday, May 1. How well would you sleep tonight if you knew at midnight every law enforcement officer and first responder in the United States was walking off the job for 24 hours? “Most of you probably wouldn’t be sitting here, and I probably wouldn’t be either,” said Homesley, who devoted Wednesday’s service to praying for the families of law enforcement officers from multiple agencies who were killed or wounded during a shootout in a Charlotte neighborhood just two days earlier... read more

At Southeastern Seminary, the final chapel of the semester celebrates and awards students in The College and the seminary who have demonstrated excellence in their academics and ministry. Thursday’s awards chapel was uniquely memorable and encouraging... read more