[4] In April 2020, Lifeway's board voted to put the Ridgecrest Conference Center up for sale.

[5] In 1891 James Marion Frost, a 43-year-old pastor, founded "The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention" after that year's annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama.

[11] In 2021, it was announced the building would be sold in favor of a smaller office as the workforce continues the trend of remote working.

B&H traces its publishing history to 1863, when the Sunday School Board was formed in 1863 at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina.

[19] Lifeway Research conducts a variety of polls on surveys on topics such as church attendance, church member's behaviors, public opinion on social issues, pastoral trends and other issues of pertinence to Christianity's influence in North America.

It also publishes Facts and Trends, a publication highlighting research that specifically targets pastors and ministry leaders.

In January 2011, high school and college students volunteers of World Changers returned to Rock Hill, South Carolina to continue to help by substantially improving homes in need throughout the city.

[24] Lifeway's ministry on the subject of sexuality and gender expression sees non-heterosexual identities as sinful,[25] which require church members to be "ready when homosexuality devastates.

"[26] That is generally consistent with Article XVIII of the Baptist Faith & Message (the doctrinal statement of the Southern Baptist Convention, LifeWay's parent),[a] but it does not specifically address topics of gender expression such as transgender and non-binary gender identities.

[27] In February 2006, Thom Rainer became the president and CEO of LifeWay after he had served as dean of the Billy Graham School of Evangelism of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

[28] On August 29, 2018, Rainer announced his retirement from LifeWay effective within one year or once his replacement had been identified, whichever occurred first.

[29] Rainer resigned earlier than anticipated, on February 28, 2019, and Brad Waggoner was named acting president.

[30] Ben Mandrell, a Southern Baptist pastor who had led churches in Tennessee and Colorado, was elected the 10th president and CEO of LifeWay in June, 2019.