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
A week before the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, when a massive report about its leaders’ mishandling of sexual abuse claims was already drawing attention, Executive Committee Chairman Rolland Slade was asked to read Scripture ...
Bart Barber, the longtime pastor of a small Texas church and a frequent leader of prominent Southern Baptist committees, has been elected the next president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Barber, 52, received 61% ...
With a sea of yellow ballots, messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting overwhelmingly approved a set of recommendations to address sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Bart Barber, SBC Presidential Candidate, on Past, Future Action to Address Abuse
Robin Hadaway, SBC Presidential Candidate, Favors Balance in Handling Abuse Claims
A Southern Baptist task force has asked the denomination to set up a “Ministry Check” website to track abusive pastors, church employees, and volunteers and to spend millions on reforms to prevent abuse and care ...
Moving to show repentance after Sunday’s (May 22) release of an investigative report that found that Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled abuse and mistreated survivors for decades, the denomination’s governing body vowed to mend its ...
Southern Baptist leaders announced Tuesday (Feb. 22) that they had reached a resolution with a sexual abuse survivor whose story was mishandled when she came forward in 2019.
