Messengers to the SBC’s annual meeting directed President Ed Litton to set up a task force to address concerns Southern Baptist leaders have mistreated abuse victims and mishandled allegations of abuse.
A New York Christian camp director who has been accused of inappropriately touching 21 girls has filed a lawsuit seeking $3.1 million in emotional and financial damages from his accuser, a Buffalo church where he ...
Giving to religious organizations went up only slightly in 2020 while groups focused on civil rights and the environment saw the biggest increases, according to a new study.
As Southern Baptists opened their annual meeting, the debates that have rocked the nation’s largest Protestant denomination in recent months almost immediately became part of the business on the crowded convention floor.
Katie Logan says the beloved physics teacher and girls basketball coach at her Christian community’s school sexually abused her in 2001 when she was 17.
A Georgia pastor has identified up to 13 boys he says were sexually abused by a Southern Baptist minister whom top leaders of the denomination in effect cleared two years ago when they declined to ...
Ed Litton, senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during a session of the SBC’s annual meeting Tuesday (June 15).
Mission Society Fundraising Expense Reports May Not Account For These Costs
Your favorite Christian ministry reports spending only a small percentage of its income on fundraising. Compelling stewardship it appears—but if the ministry is a foreign missions organization, does that number account for the time and money ...
Abara, a nonprofit providing for the physical and emotional needs of more than 10,000 asylum seekers before, during, and after COVID-19, seeks to engage across cultural divides.
Since its launch in spring of 2019, Abara has cared for more than 10,000 asylum seekers, some short term for a meal or a toiletry pickup and others long term, spanning months. Their main role ...
Trail Life USA, a Christian leadership group that offers an alternative to the Boy Scouts, says its membership has increased by 70% since the same time last year as the Boy Scouts faced declining membership, ...
