Money given to the Cooperative Program takes a circuitous route through the Southern Baptist Convention. Using Arkansas as an example, this is how it works: Churches within the state give money to the Cooperative Program, which funds not only missions and ministries within the state but also in the Southern Baptist Convention at large.

A report urging Southern Baptists to re-energize efforts to spread the Gospel and plant churches will top the agenda at the denomination’s annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., next month.

The top officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said one of the agency’s videographers was “absolutely wrong” to ask Mississippi church volunteers not to wear religious T-shirts for a video about tornado cleanup.

The Southern Baptist minister who leads Liberty University’s seminary made a career as a go-to authority on Islam for the evangelical world, selling thousands of books and touring the country as a former Muslim who discovered Jesus Christ.

A conference on addiction will be held June 27-29 at Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center. The program will focus on ways the church can aid families of loved ones struggling with addiction or substance abuse.

Occasionally, someone will utter a sentence, either orally or in print, and we’ll say, “I’d better hear that again.” Pastor and author Erwin Lutzer (not a Baptist) wrote, “One minute after you slip behind the parted curtain you will either be enjoying the personal welcome from Christ or catching your first glimpse of gloom as you have never known it. Either way, your future will be irrevocably fixed and eternally unchangeable.” Now, read it again.

I was considering writing a column on time and transcendence, after Krista Tippet’s new book, “Einstein’s God,” had offered me inspiration. The demands of the immediate present shifted my attention from speculation on the nature of the Divine to “real world” concerns.

A search for the New Testament church led the Rev. Peter Gillquist from evangelical Christianity to the Orthodox Church. There, he found a form of worship he believes most closely replicates the church of the early apostles.

Anoted scholar and leader in the Lutheran Church urged fellow Christians to be ready to talk about their own faith and hope and to show respect and gentleness in dialogue with people holding different beliefs.

The priest blessed them one and all — more than 250 cigar chewing men and “the poor women — the scantily clad” gals whose diminutive attire was intended to raise bids on auction items offered at the fourth annual Men’s Night fundraiser for St. Joseph Catholic School.