“Hands of worship: A conversation with a pastor for the deaf”
Read a Sept. 14, 2013, story from Mid-Missouri Public Radio about a Baptist church in Jefferson City, Mo., that holds services for the deaf.
Category: Congregations
Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
The Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies is dedicated to the study of the Canadian Jewish experience through research, education, and community partnerships.
Toronto Board of Rabbis
The Toronto Board of Rabbis organizes rabbis in the Toronto area for educational events and radio/television appearances.
Canadian Council for Reform Judiasm
The Canadian Council for Reform Judaism and the URJ Canada Steering Committee represent 25 Reform Congregations from Montreal to Vancouver with over 30,000 affiliated members.
“How does it work? A crash course on the Southern Baptist Convention”
Towers Online, the news service of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a primer about the SBC and its annual meeting.
“About One-in-Six Americans Are Baptist”
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has a graphic showing that one in six Americans are Baptists. The graphic breaks that figure down by the various Baptist denominations.
“Southern Baptists look for cures to stagnation”
Read a June 10, 2009, Religion News Service story, “Southern Baptists look for cures to stagnation.”
“Southern Baptist Decline and God’s Bottom Line”
Read a Dec. 22, 2008, post by David Waters, editor of the “On Faith” site of The Washington Post, crunching the numbers and analyzing the SBC downturn.
“The Next Big Southern Baptist Debate: Purging the Membership Rolls”
Read a June 12, 2008, blog post at Christianity Today about the previous SBC convention, and the disputes over numbers and membership rolls. Ted Olsen lists several statistics chronicling the downturn.