Southern Baptist summer missionary Palmer Maphet, 20, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., was killed and three other Tennessee students and their supervisor were injured June 16 when their car was struck by another vehicle near Portland, Maine. Maphet, a sophomore at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, was serving on a team sent out by Tennessee Baptist... Continue Reading

“Adoption and orphan care is not charity. Adoption and orphan care is spiritual warfare, because adoption and orphan care is about Gospel and about mission.” Russell D. Moore called attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference to view adoption and orphan care not as a charitable effort, but as an extension of the Gospel... Continue Reading

A co-founder of the Creation Museum said the success of the three-year-old facility is due in large part to a hunger among Christians to be able to defend their faith against an onslaught of attacks. Last month, the Creation Museum observed its third anniversary by adding a children’s exhibit that includes interactive displays, such as... Continue Reading

Taxpayers have funded abortion advocacy organizations to the tune of over a billion dollars between 2002 and 2009, according to a new report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). However, these figures may only be the tip of the iceberg. At a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., members of Congress and pro-life... Continue Reading

Opportunity for homeschooled high schoolers and others to take Christian-worldview AP* courses online Patrick Henry College Preparatory Academy (PHC Prep) is expanding its courses for the next academic year. Registration is officially open for AP* courses in English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Calculus AB, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and United States Government and Politics.... Continue Reading

The question facing universities looking to compete in the booming market for online higher education is not so much how to do it, but how to distinguish themselves from the rest. In this, Christian universities appear to have a built-in advantage. And many are seizing the opportunity to expand their footprint. Investing heavily in online... Continue Reading

“While overall giving declined, many donors made special efforts in 2009 to respond to greater humanitarian needs.” Giving USA Foundation™ and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, recently announced that estimated total charitable contributions from American individuals, corporations and foundations fell to $303.75 billion in 2009, down from a revised total... Continue Reading

Each month, members of Samaritan Ministries receive a newsletter directing them to send their monthly share dues to another participating family who has verified medical bills. Unlike insurance companies, there is no guarantee made by the ministries that its members’ hospital bills will be paid for. Participants of the Christian alternative for health insurance need... Continue Reading

What do you call something that has 34 legs and is 248.9 miles? An Adoption ministry. Or, at least, that’s how one group from Highview Baptist Church recently expressed it. During the early morning hours of Saturday, April 24, a group of 17 students from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — the majority from Highview’s... Continue Reading

For about two dozen teens from Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCA), their “street learning” involved sitting on a curb each morning and scraping paint from a teetering picket fence… “Learning on the streets” is usually a reference to education that comes through rough experiences, often outside the law. But for about two dozen teens from Westminster... Continue Reading