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Illinois Baptist State Newspaper

Candidates weigh in on SBC’s top issues

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Baptist Press will publish interviews with each of the four announced candidates for SBC president. The Illinois Baptist newspaper will excerpt the interviews as they are released and will also publish the excerpts here. Messengers will elect the next president of the SBC at the denomination’s annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Randy Adams   […]

Southern Baptists respond to President Trump’s contracting COVID-19

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Christians around the country and the world have called for prayer in light of the news that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Baptist Press received comments from a number of prominent Southern Baptists Oct. 2 regarding the development. Those comments are below: “Jeana and I are highly […]

SBC launches new logo, websites

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Some familiar Southern Baptist initiatives have a new look now. The SBC Executive Committee released new branding for the convention,  Cooperative Program, Baptist Press, and SBC Life in August. “We are so excited about the result of our rebranding project,” said Jonathan Howe, vice president for communications at the SBC Executive Committee. “The new logos and […]

Five lessons I learned from a COVID-19 spike at our church

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In March, April and May, our church staff braced for a wave of COVID-19 cases to sweep through our church family. It never happened. In fact, for the first three months of the COVID-19 outbreak, our church family of about 1500 only experienced a handful of coronavirus cases. As far as we know, none of […]

Panel of African American leaders call on Southern Baptists to stand together

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Nashville | Calling the racial unrest roiling the nation “spiritual warfare,” and saying “unless hearts change, nothing will change in America,” Philadelphia pastor K. Marshall Williams urged Southern Baptists to stand together in unity against injustice. “The world is waiting for us to come together,” said Williams, senior pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church of Philadelphia. […]