Southern Baptist Convention officials admitted it would have been better if they’d contacted Black leaders of their denomination before issuing a statement decrying critical race theory, which led to the departure of several Black pastors.
The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has expressed “lament” for “unintentionally” hurting African American members of his denomination with a recent joint statement on racism by all six Southern Baptist seminary presidents.
New Orleans pastor Fred Luter, the only Black person to have served as president of the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention, has added his name to a statement on justice and repentance released Friday (Dec. ...
On the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Southern Baptist Convention’s message of faith—the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM)—a coalition of Southern Baptist seminary presidents released a statement condemning Critical Race Theory and ...
Liberty University removed videos of evangelical author and speaker John Piper from its website after the well-known pastor wrote a blog post that was seen as critical of President Donald Trump.
The flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention decided Monday (Oct. 12) to maintain the names of campus buildings named for school founders who had connections to slavery. At the same meeting, the trustees of ...
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 — ...
