Southern Baptists are mourning two men who each led the Southern Baptist Convention during a pivotal time in its history. Evangelist Bailey Smith, who helped sustain the denomination’s return to conservative theology (known as the Conservative Resurgence) at its outset, died Jan. 14 at home in Georgia. He was 79. Smith’s election as SBC president […]
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Baptists mobilize for year-long evangelism emphasis
Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear (above) is encouraging Southern Baptists to answer a simple question in 2019: Who’s your one? The question is at the center of an evangelism and prayer emphasis Greear introduced last year to his own congregation, Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham. “We asked each member of our congregation to identify one […]
Trending: Social justice debate raises larger questions
Editor’s note: Each year, the Illinois Baptist team explores the trends that shaped 2018, and forecasts their effect on the coming year. At face value, “social justice” doesn’t read like a particularly controversial term. It can ruffle feathers in church life, though, especially when connected to a social gospel that downplays repentance. After the Ethics […]
Trending: Gaining grounds on old divides
Editor’s note: Each year, the Illinois Baptist team explores the trends that shaped 2018, and forecasts their effect on the coming year. The last few years have seen an increase in the number of public conversations Baptists are having about race. Sparked in large part by shootings of unarmed black men by law enforcement, churches […]
Trending: Making room at the table
Editor’s note: Each year, the Illinois Baptist team explores the trends that shaped 2018, and forecasts their effect on the coming year. Questions surrounding women in the church came into sharp relief in 2018 on the heels of #Metoo. Southern Baptists struggled through their own version of the movement, resulting in the termination of a […]
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