NASHVILLE — Nolensville Road in south Nashville is a busy four-lane highway. Along with fast-food restaurants, medical clinics, fitness centers, and pawn shops, the highway is also lined with aging strip malls that include Hispanic, South Asian, and Middle Eastern restaurants, a large stand-alone “world” market, and several stand-alone ethnic worship centers. Dubbed the “international corridor of Nashville” in a 2014 article on immigration, this section of Nolensville Road is

JACKSON — Union University turned 200 years old Feb. 3 with a special chapel service, bicentennial birthday party, a documentary release and more. The celebration began in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel with a chapel service featuring interviews from each living Union president. David Dockery, president of Union from 1996-2014, began the bicentennial chapel service by wishing Union a happy 200th birthday and celebrating the university’s Christ-centered convictions.  He joined

PIGEON FORGE — In 1996, the first retreat for bivocational ministers and wives was held at Fall Creek Falls State Park in Spencer, drawing about 20 couples. Twenty-seven years later, the Bivocational Ministers and Wives Retreat, now held annually in Pigeon Forge, drew a record attendance of more than 300 people, including 146 couples. The registration included more first-time participants than ever before, said Roger Britton, bivocational ministries specialist for

FRANKLIN — After hearing news that cyber criminals recently stole almost $800,000 from a church in North Carolina, many congregations are asking themselves an important question: Are we at risk, too?    And the answer, in most cases, is “yes.”  “Churches are a very attractive target for hackers,” said Doug Finch, technology services manager for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. “Most churches do not have an IT department and typically

FRANKLIN — Tennessee ministers John Green and Noah Leighton each decided they didn’t want to just rejoice from afar about what was happening at Asbury University. They wanted to be in on it.   Almost immediately after learning about the perpetual revival service that is taking place on the Asbury campus, Green, pastor of Wallace Memorial Baptist Church in Knoxville, and Leighton, student pastor at First Baptist Church, Goodlettsville, began

JEFFERSON CITY — Life changing. That’s how Carson-Newman University senior Keaton Hubbs describes her recent mission trip to Denver, Colo., with six other Carson-Newman students. The December trip allowed the group to work with unhoused and refugee communities, as well as receive poverty relief training from North American Mission Board’s GenSend missionaries. GenSend gives college-age students a chance to be on mission within one of the North American Mission Board’s

HARRIMAN — Ted Taylor was a relatively new member of Trenton Street Baptist Church in 1972 when his pastor, John Shepherd, called him and asked if he could use his talents to design the bulletin and church newsletter due to the absence of the church secretary. Taylor, who has a degree in commercial art, went to the church from his office at The Harriman Record where he served as advertising

MOUNT JULIET — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief is partnering with sister organizations of the field to bring help, hope and healing to people affected by multiple, massive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, according to Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. More than 22,000 are dead following two major earthquakes that rocked southern Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6. Thousands are injured and millions of people