Bob Smietana – Author – MinistryWatch
The megachurch was once one of Canada’s largest churches
Leaders of The Meeting House, a Toronto area megachurch with multiple locations and once one of the largest congregations in Canada, has shut down its public ministry, becoming a consortium of smaller congregations.
Some nonprofit newspapers endorse candidates. So why can’t churches, new lawsuit asks.
A group of evangelical broadcasters is suing the Internal Revenue Service over the Johnson Amendment, a tax law that bars nonprofits from supporting political candidates.
Former video editor claims he was fired for failing to follow Ramsey's faith-based beliefs on how to deal with COVID-19 pandemic.
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can listen to this story by clicking the link above. (RNS) — A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a former employee who claimed Ramsey Solutions, the company run by ...
And why do Southern Baptists keep getting mad at its leader?
Richard Land, who led the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for a quarter-century, said he would often remind his staff that if they did their job right, they’d eventually end up in ...
Researcher Ryan Burge has documented church decline for years. This Sunday his own church held its final service.
First Baptist Church survived a tornado, church schisms and a pair of worldwide pandemics in its more than a century and a half of ministry in this small Southern Illinois town, about an hour east ...
News comes less than 12 hours after announcement saying Leatherwood was fired
(RNS) — In a head-scratching turn of events, the executive board of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm now says its leader has not been fired. On Monday evening (July 22), the SBC Ethics ...
Firing came day after Leatherwood praised Biden for withdrawing from US presidential race
The leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics and public policy entity was fired Monday (July 22), a day after he praised President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection bid.
The Rev. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news. Church Mutual, the church’s insurance company, had dropped them.
The state group cites decline in Cooperative Program giving
The California Southern Baptist Convention has cut staff jobs, citing an ongoing decline in giving.
Once an SBC legend, Pressler’s legacy has been upended with accusations of sexual abuse
Paul Pressler, a retired Texas judge and one of the most influential evangelicals of the past 50 years, has died.
