“Awaiting Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, public favors contraception mandate”
Read a June 23, 2014, Religion News Service story rounding up various polls that show differing levels of support for each side in the case.
Faith: Baptist/Southern Baptist
“Philippine typhoon: ‘a call to action’ for global compassion”
This Baptist Press article tells about a rapid-assistance team dispatched by the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and about funds sent by Baptist Global Response.
Randy Dignan
Randy Dignan is pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Mo. He is fluent in American Sign Language, and the church has an extensive ministry for the deaf, including worship services. Dignan grew up surrounded by deaf family members and says he has always felt called to ministry for the hearing-impaired.
“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.
“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.