(RNS) — The student pastor at a South Carolina church has been placed on administrative leave after reportedly giving out stickers to students that read “i (heart) hot youth pastors.”
Federal officials have begun an investigation into sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, Southern Baptist Convention officials announced Friday.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of few Southern Baptist groups that historically has not specifically excluded women from church leadership roles, passed a resolution at its 2021 General Convention earlier this month to ...
North Carolina joins at least five other state conventions in addressing the issue of abuse at their annual meetings this fall. In recent weeks, state Baptist groups in Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Florida, and California have ...
Lawyers for Georgia pastor Mike Stone filed a complaint Monday (Oct. 18) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee accusing former Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore of defamation, false light invasion ...
Wade Morris, a popular Southern Baptist youth speaker who was hospitalized with COVID-19, has died.
A Georgia pastor has identified up to 13 boys he says were sexually abused by a Southern Baptist minister whom top leaders of the denomination in effect cleared two years ago when they declined to ...
Name change not an attempt to distance itself from Baptist roots
The Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma has rebranded itself as WatersEdge. The name change came at the end of a process that began three years ago and was made official in November 2020.
The Southern Baptist congregation aims to tell the truth about past sins while asking God to bring racial unity at the 100-year anniversary of an atrocity that this Oklahoma city—and the nation—tried for decades to ...
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