Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee has announced that the Southern Baptist Convention\'s North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell will serve as interim pastor while the church conducts a search for a full-time pastor.
When Christian vocalist Joseph Habedank resigned from his ten-year role as lead singer for The Perrys in 2013 to address his addiction to prescription pain medication, \"There was so much uncertainty in so many areas,\" his wife Lindsay said. But after completing a treatment program and ...
An Alabama church plans on starting a service in a local Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, according to reports. Their slogan — \"wings, prayer, sports\" — is designed to reach people who don\'t want to go to church, but could still enjoy \"a small dose\" of God on Sundays.
Judge Charles Price, of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Montgomery County, ruled to permanently boot Juan McFarland as Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church pastor citing Alabama case law.
As Southern Baptists across the country prepare to take up collections for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering -- a missions fund that supplements year-round support from the Cooperative Program, Southern Baptists\' primary funding channel -- for their International Mission Board, a seminary ...
As the wave of legalizing same-sex marriage continues across the United States, questions about the impact of those civil unions and the church continue to swell. For Holy Family Catholic Community Church in Illinois, the gay rights versus religious freedom debate has engulfed them after Colin ...
Despite visibly deteriorating health, former pastor Juan McFarland appeared in court this week fighting to regain control of Montgomery, Alabama\'s Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church.
The shooting of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 ignited racial tensions and weeks of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson, Mo., earlier this fall. But Stoney Shaw, pastor of the local First Baptist Church, never imagined that ...
More than 100 middle and high schoolers responded to an altar call after hearing the Gospel message during \"The Last Team Standing\" dodgeball tournament at Tampa-area Idlewild Baptist Church in November. Nearly 1,000 youth and volunteers participated in the annual evangelistic event which the ...
Evangelist Jose Alvarez has lived in the U.S. for 53 years, but this Thanksgiving is different, he says, because now he is a citizen. In 2010, because he did not have a U.S. passport and there was confusion about his identity, he was held by customs officials. But what turned into six months of ...
Pope Francis has proposed God was active in creation, but as a sort of helper who gave internal laws to created beings \"and let them develop.\"The suggestion contradicts centuries of doctrinal teachings about God\'s specific activity in the six days of creation recorded in Genesis. But while ...