The nearly 13,000 messengers left the convention hall not knowing the future of abuse reforms.
Reelection marks third time a candidate backed by the Conservative Baptist Network has been defeated
More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
For decades, spending went up at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary while enrollment plummeted, causing the school to overspend by millions in 19 of the last 21 years.
The two candidates for SBC president hold many of the same beliefs but disagree sharply over how to handle the issue of sexual abuse and over the direction of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The class-action lawsuit is the latest legal woe for Ramsey and his company
Redeemer Presbyterian Church became a congregation of more than 5,000; Keller became one of the most influential evangelicals in the US.
Churches, like other organizations, face an onslaught of phishing emails and other attempts at cyberfraud. One mistake can be costly.
The former seminary professor claims in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee that he was made a scapegoat for the denomination’s sex abuse crisis.
The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3 million members since 2006, about half of that in the last five years