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Trinity International University announced that TEDS will be acquired by Trinity Western University
(RNS) — A prominent but troubled evangelical seminary has agreed to be acquired by a Canadian university and move to British Columbia, the school’s leaders announced Tuesday (April 8). The move comes after years of ...
SBC has spent more than $3M in legal fees on the Hunt case
(RNS) — A federal judge ruled against former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt on Monday (March 31), rejecting his claims of defamation against Guidepost Solutions and nearly all the former megachurch pastor’s claims against ...
Shawn Williams named successor
David Dummitt, who became pastor of Willow Creek Church at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Sunday (March 23) that he is stepping down as leader of the influential Chicagoland megachurch.
His family responded with mercy.
Theologians, preachers and best-selling authors have long tried to explain why bad things happen to good people. But there’s a second question that doesn’t get as much attention.
Series of lawsuits by pastors accused of abuse has left SBC unable to pay its legal bills
In mid-February, Southern Baptist Convention leaders received grim news. The denomination’s Executive Committee was essentially broke.
Focus will be on training churches to use other databases and background checks.
A proposed online database that would list the names of abusive Southern Baptist pastors is now on hold, with no names likely to be added to the website by the denomination’s annual meeting this summer.
But they'll need help.
The Trump administration has halted a resettlement program for some refugees who have been awaiting resettlement for years.
At its height, Promise Keepers drew millions of men to its events
Bill McCartney, a former college football coach who became one of the most influential religious figures in American life during the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement, died Friday (Jan. 10).
10 years after GRACE abuse report, BJU accused of ‘form over substance’ and ‘rules over people’
According to Bob Jones University, the school has significantly strengthened its response to abuse disclosures over the past decade
Three years ago, James McDowell, a former principal at the Hillcrest School in Nigeria, used a post in a Facebook group for the school’s alumni to confess to molesting two students. That led to more ...
