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Abuse reform task force leader: ‘We took this work as far as we were allowed to take it.’
Leaders of a volunteer task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task.
The amendment would have to added ‘only men’ pastors language to constitution
Southern Baptists failed to adopt a change in their constitution that would explicitly state that “only men” can be “any kind of pastor” in affiliated churches.
Pressley, a North Carolina megachurch pastor, was elected after a pair of runoffs.
Clint Pressley, a North Carolina megachurch pastor known for a conservative but even-keel approach to leadership and who does not wear jeans in the pulpit, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Here’s why it matters.
More than 11,000 Southern Baptist Church members, known as messengers, are gathering in Indianapolis this week for one of the largest, and sometimes noisiest, religious meetings of the year.
In letter to US Senate, ERLC raises ethical concerns and states opposition to IVF
The chief ethicist for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination wants the federal government to clamp down on in-vitro fertilization, saying it causes harm to children and their mothers.
Ratings rise for Global Disciples, Nashville Rescue Mission; Drop for Oral Roberts University
Good morning, Weekly Review readers. It’s good to be back with you after taking last week off. I was attending my son Walker’s graduation from graduate school at Ohio University. He received his master’s degree ...
SBC report details where churches stand in membership, attendance, baptisms and abuse reforms
The bad news for Southern Baptists is that the denomination, the nation’s largest Protestant group, shrunk in 2023, with a drop of about a quarter-million people.
Lancaster County Community Foundation, J.D. Hall, and Saddleback Church Hiring Women Pastors
ONE YEAR AGO: On May 8, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that Christian groups had pulled out of participating in the Lancaster County Community Foundation’s ExtraGive event over concerns about its nondiscrimination and anti-hate policies. An alternative ...
North Carolina suspect fired after confessing crime
Pastor Ashley James Crouse of New Vision Baptist Fellowship in Granite Falls, North Carolina, has been federally charged with receipt of child pornography.
More than 3,000 fewer churches than three years ago
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) faces not only declining membership but also fewer churches to attract potential new members. According to Lifeway Research’s analysis of the 2022 Annual Church Profile of the Southern Baptist Convention, ...
