Southern Baptist leaders have written to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbor.
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 school received pushback after firing an employee who refused to sign a statement affirming biblical sexuality
In January, a salaried employee since 2020 was fired from her senior director position after declining to sign Fuller’s statement of faith.
The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’
After lengthy debate, Southern Baptists voted on new language for their constitution that would state only men can be pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
These instances of fraud underscore the need for every church to institute preventive policies as well as procedures to follow if cybercrime does occur.
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Keith Myer raised over $16,000 to help with travel and lodging
A Southern Baptist pastor in Maryland recently organized a fundraiser to help sexual abuse survivors travel to the denomination’s convention in New Orleans this June.
Guidepost has been criticized by SBC leaders for its support of LGBTQ issues
In recent weeks, Baptist leaders urged a task force formed to create a website to track abusers to cease working with Guidepost and “engage only providers that share a solidly biblical worldview.”
Disgraced former Southern Baptist president Johnny Hunt is suing the denomination he once led, saying he was defamed by allegations he assaulted another pastor’s wife.