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Focus will be on training churches to use other databases and background checks.
A proposed online database that would list the names of abusive Southern Baptist pastors is now on hold, with no names likely to be added to the website by the denomination’s annual meeting this summer.
A former professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary pleaded guilty Wednesday (Oct. 16) to lying to the FBI during an investigation into sexual abuse.
SBC and former president likely headed to trial
Court-ordered mediation between a former Southern Baptist Convention president and lawyers for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination failed last week — meaning the dispute between the two parties is likely headed to a trial in ...
Abuse related costs exceed $12 million
An investigation into how leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have dealt with sexual abuse by clergy has cost more than $12 million over the past three years, causing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to ...
Fellow journalists claim she violated journalistic ethics in ‘Shepherds for Sale’
The New York Times best seller “Shepherds for Sale” is coming under fire by journalists, who say author Megan Basham didn’t follow basic rules of journalistic ethics when she revealed the name of former SBC ...
Fewer have been trained in reporting sexual abuse or caring for abuse survivors.
Almost 3 in 5 congregations affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention (58%) use background checks.
News comes less than 12 hours after announcement saying Leatherwood was fired
(RNS) — In a head-scratching turn of events, the executive board of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm now says its leader has not been fired. On Monday evening (July 22), the SBC Ethics ...
The program faces growing challenges as it approaches its 100th anniversary.
Feuds over politics, race and the role of women in the church — which parallel the polarization of American culture — have dominated recent denominational meetings and caused some churches to withhold their mission giving.
The following stories had the most page views at the MinistryWatch website during the month of November. We present them here in a “countdown” format, from 10 to 1.
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