CHICAGO (BP) – The 2019 school year has brought religious liberty challenges for college and high school students in the U.S., including action in Illinois, Tennessee and North Carolina. In Illinois, four Wheaton College students have sued the city of Chicago for the right to distribute religious flyers and preach in a public park after the city set new rules against such action. In Tennessee, two high schools faced backlash from the Freedom from Religion Foundation when a coach led … [Read more...]

NASHVILLE (BP) – Forty years after her husband began leading the Southern Baptist Convention in the Conservative Resurgence promoting a doctrine of biblical inerrancy, Joyce Rogers still hopes the best for the SBC. "I would hope that they would keep the Word of God in the center of their belief (and continue) in the inerrancy of the Word of God," she told Baptist Press during a telephone interview, June 28 from her doctor's waiting room. "My husband really was the one that fought for that, … [Read more...]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Forty years after the birth of the Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is relocating from the J.W. MacGorman Chapel more than 40 stained glass windows commemorating the era. Two Missouri Baptist leaders were depicted in the windows, including: Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats, who also serves as the Southern Baptist Convention Recording Secretary; and the late Jim Wells, a former Missouri … [Read more...]

T. LANDRY PARISH, La. (BP) – A 21-year-old white man is charged with arson in fires that destroyed three black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish. Investigators reportedly haven't determined whether the fires were racially motivated. Holden Matthews, the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy, was arrested late yesterday afternoon (April 10) and charged with three counts of arson. No motive has been determined, but investigators are considering Matthews' membership in a band that … [Read more...]

ATLANTA (BP) – Mountains fascinate Trudy Cathy White, from the mountaintop outside her childhood home where parents Jeannette and Truett Cathy of Chick-fil-A fame led family Bible studies to the rough spiritual mountains that have tried her faith. White, a Christian entrepreneur, speaker and former International Mission Board missionary, offers wisdom from personal mountaintops in a new book, “Climb Every Mountain: Finding God Faithful in the Journey of Life.” She and husband John built … [Read more...]