Black Church Week, at LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center, focused on such themes as discipleship, outreach, strategic planning, evangelism, marriage and family enrichment and student and collegiate ministry.

Pastor addresses legalism and grace in previewing Southern Baptists' January Bible Study.

Church planter recounts initiatives in Africa and in economically depressed North Carolina community.

More than 70 percent of the residents of Quebec support the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide, according to a recent survey.

A survey of British physicians shows those who are atheistic or agnostic are nearly two times as likely as religious doctors to make decisions that will hasten the deaths of their terminally ill patients.

Columnist R. Albert Mohler Jr. gives his thoughts on Stephen Hawking's declaration that God did not created the universe.

A Chinese pastor and his wife were slain Aug. 31 at Penglai Christian Church, where Lottie Moon, an icon of Southern Baptist mission work, served in the early 1900s in Penglai, China.

Through prayer, elderly Korean-American couple lose their resentment toward the Japanese.

God has blessed Baptist work in Cambodia -- with 304 churches started since 1993 -- but partnership is needed for the work to move forward, the president of Cambodia's Baptist Union said.

After initially denying it, Jim Wallis, a leader of the evangelical left, has admitted his Sojourners organization has received funding from leftist billionaire George Soros, who has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism and "gay marriage."

Seven years after Alabama removed a Ten Commandments monument from a government building under federal court-order, the state of Oklahoma is preparing to erect its own Ten Commandments monument on capitol grounds.

Recent media reports have pointed to the growing trend of homeschooling, with Texas alone seeing a 20 percent increase in the number of homeschooling families in the past five years.

Columnist Kelly Boggs says if smoking in movies can influence teens -- as the CDC says -- then so can film sexuality.

After pondering "Eat Pray Love" and "Get Low," editor suggests the words of the psalmist.

Government-perpetrated violence against a Catholic village in Vietnam has highlighted a series of human rights abuses in the communist nation, and three U.S. congressmen are calling on the United Nations to intervene.

A report of three Christian aid workers being killed by the Taliban in Pakistan has yet to be confirmed and could be false.

Frank Page, president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, encourages Baptists to be "giant killers" by having a renewed "belief in the power of the Lord God Almighty."

The nominee for North American Mission Board president voices his heart for church planting and adoption.

Family relocates to Hungry Horse, Mont., from Georgia in order to share their faith through Canyon Baptist Church.

Columnist Adam Groza says Christians should have no part of Mixed Martial Arts or the Ultimate Fighting Championship.