Laura Erlanson

HOUSTON – A Texas Business Court judge has dismissed most of the claims against Second Baptist Church in Houston in a lawsuit brought by current and former church members last spring.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for May was above the budget goal for the month. Total giving remains about 3 percent under budget for the year. In actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($126,641,680.27) is almost identical to the amount given through May of last year ($126,667,880.91) – a difference of .02 percent.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Most people subscribe to one of two stories about the nature and origin of life and of humanity’s place in the universe, says author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer.

ORLANDO – Dozens of Orlando churches are ready to host Southern Baptists from all over America for Crossover 2026 leading up to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in June.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – When Nate Adams was interviewed by the search team that hired him as the executive director of the Illinois Baptist State Association 20 years ago, he was asked: “Do you see yourself with gray hair in Illinois?”

NASHVILLE (BP) – When Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman got married 40-plus years ago, they knew they were opposites in many ways. After all, that was what had attracted them to each other in the first place. “You fall in love with something you are not,” Mary Beth says.

ORLANDO (BP) – Florida pastor Ted Traylor announced today (March 3) his intention to nominate South Carolina pastor Wayne Bray to serve as president of the 2027 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Indianapolis.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a win for parental rights Monday (March 2) when it blocked, for now, a California state law that bans automatic notification of parents if their child changes pronouns or gender expression at school.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The landscape of so-called “gender affirming care” continues to change as hospitals change policies and treatment plans under pressure from the Trump administration.

NASHVILLE (BP) – In a wide-ranging interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution, former U.S. senator and former university president Ben Sasse minced no words and even used some colorful ones when talking about the gravity of his condition and of the country’s challenges.