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Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has stepped down from office, four years after he was tasked with leading the convention's political advocacy arm.
A theologically conservative megachurch in Texas has announced that it has exited the Southern Baptist Convention, following a discernment process that lasted several months.
The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission sent a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee Monday expressing dismay at the recent Olympic opening ceremony.
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Brent Leatherwood is not resigning from his position, according to the Southern Baptist Convention body, contradicting an earlier announcement.
A proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's constitution, known as the Law Amendment, that would have permanently banned women from serving as pastors "as qualified by Scripture," fell 5 percentage points short of the required two-thirds support from messengers on Wednesday.
Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber warned the United States’ largest Protestant denomination against “toxic” churches that “empower critics” rather than buildup struggling believers.
In advance of the Southern Baptist Convention's June 11-12 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, SBC's Resolutions Committee has released a list of 10 resolutions that messengers will consider in their preliminary form. Topics include IVF, Israel and parental rights. One resolution indirectly touches on the hot-button issue of Christian nationalism.
