Can A Church Renew A Pastor’s Contract Without An Agreement on Salary?
A man who had served as the finance manager for Christ the King Cathedral in Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced on May 26 to 51 months for embezzling over a quarter of a million dollars through ...
Students continue a three-week-long sit-in at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) to protest the school’s traditional views on human sexuality and its policy against hiring full-time faculty who violate it, including those who engage in homosexual ...
Bart Barber, the longtime pastor of a small Texas church and a frequent leader of prominent Southern Baptist committees, has been elected the next president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Barber, 52, received 61% ...
Employee or minister? The “ministerial exception” question was key for a panel of judges from the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado, which decided on June 7 that a discrimination lawsuit filed ...
MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT: Food for the Hungry
One of the nation’s best-known pastors made a surprise visit to the floor of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
With a sea of yellow ballots, messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting overwhelmingly approved a set of recommendations to address sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
But this year’s election for Pastors’ Conference president, held Monday night (June 13), was hotly contested, as conservative Baptists have come to the annual meeting this year determined to halt what they see as a ...
The North Georgia Board of Trustees of the United Methodist Church (UMC) has reached a settlement with Mt. Bethel Church in East Cobb, Georgia.
