By Diana Chandler Baptist Press NASHVILLE — In Nashville all of 24 hours while his wife Donna was home in Memphis, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines had already spoken with her four times, he said, because he loves her and simply loves to hear her voice. The conversations with his wife served as an analogy to encourage Southern Baptists to talk with God and tell others about our Savior,

By Lonnie Wilkey and Chris Turner Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — For the past few years, giving through the Cooperative Program has been on an upswing in Tennessee and throughout the Southern Baptist Convention. Recent developments across the Southern Baptist Convention, however, raise questions about whether the upswing in Cooperative Program giving will continue.

Baptist Press ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines discussed a range of topics of interest to Baptists in a question-and-answer session with state Baptist paper editors during their Feb. 14-16 annual meeting in Ontario, Calif. The discussion covered President Donald Trump’s first 25 days in office including the refugee crisis; controversial comments by Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission president Russell Moore during the election; churches tithing

No building and a bathroom practice site doesn’t deter Bible drillers By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — The youth of Roaring Fork Baptist Church here are not unlike countless other teenagers across Tennessee who are participating in Youth Bible Drill, preparing for associational and state competitions later this spring. What sets the Roaring Fork youth apart from other groups is where they practice — a bathroom at