The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’
After lengthy debate, Southern Baptists voted on new language for their constitution that would state only men can be pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Despite criticism, the task force charged with implementing abuse reforms was renewed for a second year.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force unveiled a “Ministry Check” website Wednesday (June 14) as part of their report on the convention’s annual meeting.
Meta tapped text-based research and audio recordings of people reading the New Testament in 1,100 languages.
The artificial intelligence arm of Meta is using widely translated religious texts like the Bible to provide data for its Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project, which aims to expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology to underserved ...
Former combat veterans started Mighty Oaks Foundation in 2012 to help returning military combat veterans and first responders deal with trauma through a Christ-centered approach.
He served at the same church as convicted sex offender Daniel Savala.
A leader of a Christian & Missionary Alliance church in Ketchikan, Alaska, connected to convicted sex offender and former Chi Alpha leader Daniel Savala is charged with sexually abusing a minor.
Saddleback, whose case was argued by founding pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren, had been ousted for naming a woman to its pastoral team.
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting affirmed a decision to expel two Southern Baptist churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, because they employed women as pastors.
The nearly 13,000 messengers left the convention hall not knowing the future of abuse reforms.
During the opening day of their annual meeting, Southern Baptists reelected a president, debated the place of women leaders in the church and spent hours debating using Robert’s Rules of Order.
More than 90% of clergy members in attendance at the Conference’s annual meeting voted in favor of the move
The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church has approved allowing openly gay clergy members to serve in its churches.
In June of 1998, 25 years ago this month, Rusty and Carol Leonard officially incorporated MinistryWatch. To celebrate that occasion, and all that God has done to keep MinistryWatch alive and thriving over a quarter-century, ...
Reelection marks third time a candidate backed by the Conservative Baptist Network has been defeated
Texas pastor Bart Barber was elected to a second year in office during an afternoon session of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting.
