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Thom S. Rainer began his tenure as LifeWay Christian Resources’ ninth president by stating that the 115-year-old organization stands at a crossroads.

Biblical preaching is central to the task of the church of Jesus Christ, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said during the school’s annual spring convocation Jan. 31.

Recent statistics show that as many as 80-90 percent of all babies found to have Down syndrome through pre-term testing are aborted, an alarming number that demonstrates contemporary culture’s fixation with human perfection and consumer choice, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Jan. 22 on the Coral Ridge Hour television program.

The movie “Brokeback Mountain” presents a distorted and unbiblical picture of human sexuality, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, during a Jan. 17 appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

Ben Merkle has to look no further than his own neighborhood to see syncretism’s silly side.

Hard on the shoulder of a main thoroughfare near Merkle’s Southeast Asia home sits a drive-thru Hindu temple where one may make a two-minute stop to have his new automobile ‘blessed’ by a great pantheon of pagan gods.

The increase in the number of married couples in the United States who are deciding not to have children is a disturbing trend that could have a long-term negative impact on society, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Seminary, told CNN on Thursday.

Like Stephen, the first Christian martyr, ministers must be willing to proclaim the Gospel faithfully even under the threat of death, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told 132 graduates Friday during his fall commencement address at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

In many sermons and Sunday school lessons, the Old Testament book of Nehemiah is presented as a series of moral lessons and tips on leadership.

Is reformation in the Southern Baptist Convention complete?

Though the denomination in the past 25 years has witnessed an Egypt to Canaan transformation with a full embrace of the inerrancy of Scripture, the author of a new book argues that the denomination must now build a doctrinal superstructure on the foundation of inerrancy.

Egalitarians are winning the gender debate because evangelical complementarian men have largely abdicated their biblically ordained roles as head of the home and have, in practice, embraced contemporary pagan feminism, Russell D. Moore said in a presentation at the 57th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) on Nov. 17.

A recent decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowing public schools to provide information about sex to elementary school students without parental consent is “an outrage” and demonstrates “what an activist judiciary looks like,” R. Albert Mohler Jr. said on the Focus on the Family radio broadcast Nov. 16.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students are “willing to march into hell to get the Gospel to the ends of the earth,” Chuck Lawless said at the Southern Seminary luncheon during the Kentucky Baptist Convention Nov. 15.