If you’re looking for some summer reading (and you should be), here is my list of books I’ve read in the last 6 months that I would...

Yesterday the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention voted for president of the SBC. And then, because it was too close to call,...

In a little over a day, I’ll be headed to St. Louis for this year’s Annual Meeting of the SBC. I always look forward to attending the...

This week, the International Mission Board announced that the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (the IMB’s primary source of funding)...

Just today, the SBC’s Annual Church Profile (ACP) was released, and many of the statistics are troubling. Attendance throughout our...

A couple weeks ago, Bill Ricketts announced his retirement from Prince Avenue Baptist Church (PABC) in Athens, GA. You may be wondering,...

The narrative our culture puts forward regarding homosexuality is that we have only two options—affirmation or alienation. Sadly, the...

I’m excited to introduce and host a new website about the future of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which we’re calling...

A few years ago I read a fascinating book called The Bishop of Rwanda, by John Rucyahana. He talked about the horrible genocides in...

The past few years have been challenging for many Baptist churches. Across the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole, we’ve seen the...

This guest post comes from Brad Hambrick, our Pastor of Counseling. For more, be sure to come to the SJI Forum that Brad is leading on...

Healthy things tend to grow, so it’s hard to regard a church that is not growing evangelistically as healthy, regardless of whatever else...

It’s pretty common these days for people to dismiss Christians as inconsistent because “they follow some of the rules in the Bible and...

This guest post comes from Brad Hambrick, our Pastor of Counseling. For more, be sure to come to the SJI Forum that Brad is leading on...

For those of you here at the Summit: I’m accepting a nomination for SBC President, which is a volunteer position. The nature of the...

The opening chapters of Genesis are incredibly rich. (If you haven’t noticed, they’ve been bouncing around my head quite a bit recently....

Earlier this week, we’ve been considering the question of whether the Jesus depicted in Mark’s Gospel contradicts the Jesus in John’s...

Yesterday I (Chris) introduced a common objection to the historicity of Jesus: the accounts of Jesus’ life are so varied in the Gospels...

This is the first of a 3-part series on the supposed contradictions between the Gospels of Mark and John. Pastor J.D. and I (Chris)...

Last week, President Obama gave his final State of the Union address. Regardless of what you think of his time in office (or the speech...