The Southern Baptist Convention failed to pass a motion to prohibit member churches from employing women in any pastor role, a similar measure to the Law Amendment that was narrowly defeated last year.
The Southern Baptist Convention has voted against a proposal to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission amid criticisms over advocacy efforts and leadership.
Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley has been reelected to a second term in office, defeating a last-minute challenge from Protestia publisher David Morrill.
A motion to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was introduced at the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, amid debate over the future of the convention's policy arm.
Jennifer Lyell, a former Lifeway Christian Resources executive and abuse survivor who played a key role in the Southern Baptist Convention's response to sexual abuse allegations, has died at age 47.
The Southern Baptist Convention has relaunched a website dedicated to helping to fight abuse within member congregations of the United States’ largest Protestant denomination.
A ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina is helping settle Afrikaner refugees who have traveled from South Africa to the United States, seeing it as a biblical mandate to help even if they disagree with the Trump administration's handling of refugee admissions.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include St. Ignatius of Loyola being wounded in battle, John Wesley’s “Aldersgate Experience,” and a Baptist group being launched.
A former Florida pastor and father of nine children is due in court after pleading not guilty to the charge of sexually assaulting a teenaged girl.
Based on my several decades of experience in dealing with Southern Baptist public policy concerns, we currently have a more sympathetic and receptive audience among national and state-level appointed and elected officials than we have experienced in my adult lifetime.
