Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist leaders vow to improve addressing sex abuse after papers’ report
By Adelle M. Banks — February 11, 2019
(RNS) — 'I am committed to doing everything possible to ensure we never make these mistakes again,' Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear said in response to an investigation by Texan newspapers.
Southern Baptist minister embroiled in election fraud controversy
By Jack Jenkins — December 4, 2018
(RNS) — The allegations are awkward for Harris, who made a name for himself in the Tar Heel state as a conservative crusader and once argued for greater involvement for pastors in politics.
Southern Baptists mull what’s next on confronting abuse
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2018
DALLAS (RNS) — New SBC President J.D. Greear said he is 'very open to anything that can lead to a greater transparency and greater safety and that prioritizes the safety of the victim above everything.'
King in Montgomery: A white Southern Baptist minister reflects
By Alan Cross — April 5, 2018
(RNS) — If we benefit from the status quo, we can seek to maintain it rather than recognize that a wheel of injustice might be grinding our neighbor down. King shone a light on that injustice and it often made white Christians uncomfortable. His words and legacy, if we listen, still make us uncomfortable today.
On King holiday, religious groups look to 50th anniversary of assassination
By Adelle M. Banks — January 12, 2018
(RNS) — From Memphis to Washington, here are a few ways faith groups and their partners are noting that date in history.
Southern Baptists talk sex, LGBT issues at parenting conference
By Holly Meyer — August 26, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) — The Friday morning panel prompted a demonstration from Faith in America, a nonprofit that tries to stop 'harmful anti-LGBT religious teachings.'
An appeal to the SBC’s Russell Moore
By Katharine R. Henderson — April 6, 2017
(RNS) You and I are followers of Christ in a deeply polarized nation. Let's have a courageous conversation to pave a way forward together.
Russell Moore faces a challenging road ahead
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Although his apology for being 'unnecessarily harsh' toward Trump supporters was accepted by the Southern Baptist Convention's top brass, the public voice of America's largest denomination still faces a groundswell of grass-roots discontent.
Southern Baptist leaders stand by Moore after his apologies
By Adelle M. Banks — March 20, 2017
(RNS) A new statement was released a week after ethicist Russell Moore and Southern Baptist leader Frank Page issued a shorter joint statement about how they 'fully support one another.'
Black Southern Baptists: ‘We are pulling for Dr. Moore’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 14, 2017
(RNS) With 81 percent of white evangelicals supporting Trump in the November election and Southern Baptists striving to improve on their history that includes a defense of slavery, the questions roiling around Moore have included matters of race.
Jeff Sessions needs a Sunday school lesson on immigration
By Jerome Socolovsky — January 6, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) Confirmation hearings begin next week for Donald Trump’s pick for U.S attorney general, who finds fodder in the Bible to justify his reactionary anti-immigrant positions. But the Alabama senator is out of step with more than a millennium of Christian thought and discipleship.
Russell Moore responds to Southern Baptist detractors
By Adelle M. Banks — December 20, 2016
(RNS) In his column, Moore said there were times during the campaign he thought it would have been 'negligent' to keep quiet.
Can Baptists contest a core principle of their identity?
By Trevin Wax — June 10, 2016
(RNS) Until a new wave of radical Islam appeared, Baptists were united in seeing religious liberty as a fundamental principle of Baptist identity.
Russell Moore: The real meaning of transgender bathrooms
By Russell Moore — May 13, 2016
What's really happening is a concerted effort to deny the truth of the Bible about who we are as men and women, says a Southern Baptist theologian.
Holy Twitter! Trump takes on a top Baptist theologian
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — May 9, 2016
(RNS) There's a holier-than-thou Twitter smackdown underway between The Donald and a top Southern Baptist theologian.
