By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Tennessee Baptists extend a warm welcome to our Southern Baptist brothers and sisters in Christ who are in Nashville this week for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Many of you may be in Nashville for the first time while this may be a regular place to visit for others. Even without Opryland, a theme park that used to bring
By Randy C. Davis President and executive director, TBMB I love being a Tennessee Baptist, and there are countless reasons why, beginning with our rich history and continuing with our very bright future. Just a few years ago, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board exhumed the remains of Tidence Lane, the first Baptist pastor to journey over the Appalachian Mountains and into East Tennessee to invest his life in church planting,
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing Writer, B&R When I was a small child, my father often called me to help him with a task. Sometimes it was holding a board he was sawing with a hand saw. Another time, he needed me to help plant corn in the family garden. And I recall the numerous times I was called to sit on the ice cream freezer, holding it down, while my
By Scott Shepherd Worship And Music Specialist, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board “What’s Critical Race Theory?” “Why did Russell Moore resign?” “Can women be pastors?” “Who are you going to vote for as SBC president?” “Why did Beth Moore leave the Southern Baptist Convention?” No, these aren’t hallway conversation predictions for the Southern Baptist Convention. Rather, they’re the types of questions I’m asked at home every day — at the dinner
By Ray Van Neste Dean and professor of Biblical studies for the School of Theology and Missions, Union University It’s graduation season, and I’d like to congratulate all you graduates, as well as your parents, family and friends. This is a momentous accomplishment for which you should be justly proud. I have long thought if ever I gave a graduation address, I would speak to what I call “the graduation
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] In less than two weeks, Nashville will be abuzz with Southern Baptists. More than 12,000 messengers are expected to register for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention to be held June 15-16 at the Music City Center in Nashville. Music City and Tennessee last hosted the SBC annual meeting in 2005 and 11,641 messengers registered for the event. Attendance has
By Randy C. Davis President and Executive Director, TBMB We are going to meet. We are actually coming together, in person, to represent more than 40,000 churches that comprise the network of churches called the Southern Baptist Convention. While gathering for the annual SBC isn’t that earth shattering in itself – after all we’ve been doing it every year since 1845 through wars, pandemics, heated (and needed) theological debates, cultural
By J.D. Greear President of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, N.C. DURHAM, N.C. – John Wesley famously said, “God does nothing in the world except in answer to prayer.” That’s probably an overstatement, but the apostles’ experience in Acts verifies at least the sentiment behind it. It was after a 10-day prayer meeting that God gave Peter the power to birth the church through
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Last week, Tennessee and other states in the southeast faced a gas shortage due to a cyberattack on a pipeline. Hopefully, by the time you’re reading this, the issue has been corrected and gas is once again readily available at fuel pumps. I know people who were in other parts of the state when the gas shortage became apparent and there were
By Randy C. Davis President & Executive Director, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Sometimes all people need to press forward is a sliver of hope. Last week we got it. Dr. Rochelle Walensky delivered that hope when the director of the Center for Disease Control stepped to the microphone during a press conference and said, “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Tennessee Baptists extend a warm welcome to our Southern Baptist brothers and sisters in Christ who are
By Randy C. Davis President and executive director, TBMB I love being a Tennessee Baptist, and there are countless reasons why, beginning with our rich
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing Writer, B&R When I was a small child, my father often called me to help him with a task. Sometimes it
By Scott Shepherd Worship And Music Specialist, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board “What’s Critical Race Theory?” “Why did Russell Moore resign?” “Can women be pastors?” “Who
By Ray Van Neste Dean and professor of Biblical studies for the School of Theology and Missions, Union University It’s graduation season, and I’d like
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] In less than two weeks, Nashville will be abuzz with Southern Baptists. More than 12,000 messengers are
By Randy C. Davis President and Executive Director, TBMB We are going to meet. We are actually coming together, in person, to represent more than
By J.D. Greear President of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, N.C. DURHAM, N.C. – John Wesley famously said, “God
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Last week, Tennessee and other states in the southeast faced a gas shortage due to a cyberattack
By Randy C. Davis President & Executive Director, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Sometimes all people need to press forward is a sliver of hope. Last
