SBC Executive Committee Archives - MinistryWatch
Churches and ministries should always train about grooming behaviors, experts say.
States are increasingly passing laws that criminalize not only sexual abuse, but the grooming process that often precedes the abuse.
Series of lawsuits by pastors accused of abuse has left SBC unable to pay its legal bills
In mid-February, Southern Baptist Convention leaders received grim news. The denomination’s Executive Committee was essentially broke.
Leaders of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination face a pair of new lawsuits that accuse the denomination of covering up sexual abuse in local churches.
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Bart Barber released a statement early Monday morning (Oct. 30) saying he takes “full responsibility” for the amicus brief that was submitted to the Kentucky Supreme Court on behalf of ...
McLaurin is the third Executive Committee leader to resign in controversy since 2018.
Willie McLaurin, the acting president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, resigned suddenly on Thursday (Aug. 17) after admitting he had falsified his resume.
More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention’s constituent churches has been plummeting, its national leaders are feuding or quitting, and any good work the denomination could boast about has been largely overshadowed by a sex abuse ...
Warren argues that the debate is far larger than what might happen to the church he founded.
Days before the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, former megachurch pastor Rick Warren has appealed to his fellow Southern Baptists to overturn a denominational decision to oust his Saddleback Church because it permits women to ...
The former SBC leader and his family have a network of ventures doing business with the SBC
Well-known Southern Baptist Convention leader and pastor Johnny Hunt has occupied positions within the denomination that provided access for his and his family’s network of nonprofit and for-profit businesses.
The Southern Baptist Conventions’ top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday—an LGBTQ-affirming church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it ...
Southern Baptists Change Direction on Sexual Abuse after Years of Delay
