WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) President Daniel L. Akin announced today (Oct. 14) he will retire from the role at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. His official retirement date is July 31, 2026... read more
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Giving at local churches is not keeping up with inflation, but pastors feel better about the economy than they did last year. Half of U.S. Protestant pastors (49%) say the current economy is negatively impacting their churches, according to the latest tracking survey from Lifeway Research... read more
BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) — Louisiana Baptist leaders are thankful for God’s protection over the Louisiana State University Baptist Collegiate Ministry (LCU BCM) building, which was vacant at the time of an Oct... read more
BEIJING (BP) — China falsely claimed Oct. 13 to protect religious freedoms after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged the country’s government to release several pastors arrested in house church raids... read more
Sota spent his career in information technology, but retiring from secular work didn’t mean stepping away from serving the Lord. A Japanese man living in the United States, Sota asked a simple but powerful question: “Is there anything more I can do than pray?” God answered with an unexpected invitation — an opportunity to serve as a digital engagement (DE) responder for a city in Japan... read more
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