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Governments, corporations, educational institutions, businesses and churches all need leaders, and it is the church’s responsibility to train up youth to fill those positions, Jimmy Scroggins said during the Vision Conference VII at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

After visiting 20 churches in seven states this summer, Thomas Bolton has some fresh ideas for training Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students to serve effectively in local church music ministries.

Bolton, dean of the school of church music and worship at Southern, spent 11 Sundays visiting some of the Southern Baptist Convention’s most prominent churches.

For the past 150 years Mormonism has been in conflict with biblical, historic Christianity.

However, leaders of Mormonism—officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)—have in recent years downplayed the cult’s divergence from traditional Christianity and now portray it as merely another form of the biblical faith.

The president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary did not have to look far to find a new dean for the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.

R. Albert Mohler Jr. has appointed Charles E. Lawless, the Graham School’s senior associate dean, as its new leader.

Paul was a member of First Baptist Church who attended every Sunday morning. Other church members often commented favorably on Paul’s faithfulness. But in reality Sunday morning worship attendance was the limit of Paul’s commitment to the church.

Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources unanimously approved the election of Thom S. Rainer to become the ninth president of the Southern Baptist entity Sept. 12.

When Hochel Song and his family left their home on the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary campus Aug. 27, they expected to return within a couple of days.

Students, faculty and staff at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary should pray, give and go to assist with relief in wake of Hurricane Katrina, seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. …

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–Ministers are not volunteers who join a profession, but are earthen vessels chosen and equipped by God to proclaim His Word for His glory, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said …

Evolution is a driving force behind the rejection of traditional morality, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said in a National Public Radio online forum on evolution and religious faith.

Evangelical Christianity and evolution are incompatible beliefs that may not be held together logically within a distinctly Christian worldview, R. Albert Mohler Jr. says in this week’s edition of TIME magazine.

The presidential search committee of LifeWay Christian Resources’ board of trustees today recommended that Thom S. Rainer become the Southern Baptist entity’s next president after James T. Draper Jr. retires Feb. 1.