In a long-awaited report released Monday (Feb. 1), a task force commissioned to study the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission calls the convention’s public policy arm a “significant distraction from the Great ...
Ruling protects Christian ministries
The Supreme Court has affirmed and clarified the “ministerial exception” rule to include lay people, stating that employees don’t have to be ordained to be considered religiously significant. The Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday that two ...
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will launch a task force to examine the activities of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the convention’s public policy organization headed by the theologian and author Russell Moore.
