Wednesday, July 22, 2020

• Pro-lifers: More needed to disavow Sanger's eugenics legacy

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo from Google

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pro-life advocates, including a Southern Baptist, welcomed a Planned Parenthood affiliate's repudiation of founder Margaret Sanger's eugenics advocacy but said the country's No. 1 abortion provider must do more to overcome her legacy. Read More

• South Korean church plant finds home

  by Stella McMillian*, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  IMB photo

  SEOUL (BP) -- While Stuart Robinson, an IMB missionary in Seoul, South Korea, was walking in his neighborhood one day, something new caught his eye. In the window of a café there was a small sign: "Closed on the Lord's day."

  Robinson was immediately curious. Though South Korea has had a great harvest of believers in recent decades, it isn't common to see such a clear expression of faith from a business owner. He ducked inside. Read More

• Tennessee pastor takes apologetics outside the church

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Submitted photo

  SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (BP) -- The greatest apologetics any Christian can proclaim is the way they live their lives, according to David Evans, pastor of Springfield Baptist Church in Springfield, Tenn.

  "It's not the argument; it's not the debate," Evans said. "... If we shrink back in [our life], we have no apologetic." Read More

• Mississippi's The Baptist Record goes fully digital

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- The Baptist Record will cease printing after 143 years, going fully digital and free of charge on its own website, according to editor William H. Perkins Jr.

  "There came a time when the last buggy repair shop in Mississippi had to close, because the need for horse-drawn carriages had passed," Perkins said. "As automobiles were to horse-drawn carriages in another era, the internet has brought tremendous change to the news industry, both religious and secular." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Pause before posting

  by Brandon Porter, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Brandon Porter admits he rarely leaves social media feeling encouraged. But he offers some advice to make social media better -- and six questions to ask before posting. Read More