On This Date at MinistryWatch
Seattle Pacific Budget Cuts, J.D. Hall, Ed Litton apologizes, and The American Bible Society
One Year Ago: On June 29, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that Seattle Pacific University planned to cut its academic program budget by 40%. The budget cuts, which primarily involved steep faculty layoffs, were attributed to declining enrollment. The university was also embroiled in a legal battle over its commitment to a Biblical view of sexuality and marriage. Read more here.
Two Years Ago: On June 29, 2022, MinistryWatch reported that Fellowship Baptist Church of Sidney, Montana, released a statement disclosing their pastor Jordan “JD” Hall disqualified himself from pastoral ministry due to a dependency on the prescription Xanax. Read more here.
Three Years Ago: On June 28, 2021, MinistryWatch reported that the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, apologized for giving a sermon where he used material from his predecessor J.D. Greear without revealing where it came from. Read more here.
Four Years Ago: On June 23, 2020, Robert Briggs was named president of the American Bible Society, one of the nation’s oldest and largest Christian ministries. Read more here. Two years later, Briggs departed from the Bible Society. You can read that story here.
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