Critics of the Texas pastor questioned his role in the search process as former Executive Committee chair and wondered why interim President Willie McLaurin, who is Black, had been passed over.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s effort to fill the top administrative post on its Executive Committee will start from scratch after members of the committee rejected Texas pastor Jared Wellman on Monday (May 1) by a ...
Disgraced former Southern Baptist president Johnny Hunt is suing the denomination he once led, saying he was defamed by allegations he assaulted another pastor’s wife.
Preemptive Love Coalition, a 14-year-old faith-based relief organization that was rocked by scandals and internal strife, announced this week that it is merging with the D.C.-based Search For Common Ground.
A Vineyard Movement church senior pastor has resigned from his local and national positions within the denomination in the midst of accusations that he and his wife knew about alleged sexual abuse and leadership misconduct ...
(RNS) — For years, Southern Baptist leaders told members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination that setting up a database to track abusive pastors was impossible. Now that impossible task is one step closer to ...