In his first meeting as leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, the Rev. Rolland Slade called on other committee members on Tuesday (Sept. 22) to be responsible “to shepherd and to protect” survivors ...
Months ahead of their planned annual meeting, some Southern Baptist leaders are embracing an unofficial moniker for their gathering and, in some cases, for themselves: Great Commission Baptists.
The Rev. Rolland Slade, senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., has been elected as the first African-American chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, the group that runs the business of the ...
The Southern Baptist Convention will not hold its annual meeting as it regularly does each June. But issues its members have long grappled with — including race, membership drops, and the roles of women — ...
Leaders from two of the largest faith groups in the United States – Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics -- issued statements lamenting the death of George Floyd and calling for an end to racial inequality.
Author, speaker and pastor, Bryan Loritts claims to be a “Dr.” on his website, Instagram, and Twitter. Yet, according to a story by Julie Roys on her website The Roys Report, “Loritts has no earned doctorate. And the honorary doctorate he does have is from ...
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) announced Tues. Mar. 24, that it has canceled its annual meeting in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the first time in 75 years that the SBC’s annual meeting will not be held, the convention’s news service Baptist Press (BP) reported.
A DC-8 aircraft carrying an emergency field hospital and a team of 32 technicians and medical personnel took off from Greensboro, N.C., on Tues., Mar. 17, for Cremona, Italy, to set up a triage operation outside ...
