Founders Ministries

‘We’ll be back’: CBN vows to keep fighting ‘wokeism’ and women preachers in SBC

By Bob Smietana — June 24, 2022
(RNS) — Leaders of the Conservative Baptist Network hope that a return to the Bible Belt in 2023 will bolster their efforts to reform the Southern Baptist Convention.

Tom Ascol, would-be SBC president, worries churches have lost hold of the Bible

By Bob Smietana — June 10, 2022
(RNS) — Ascol has long argued Southern Baptist churches are filled with people who believe they are Christians but really aren't — a belief shaped by growing up with an abusive father who was also a church deacon.

Anti-woke preachers Voddie Baucham and Tom Ascol to be nominated as SBC leaders

By Bob Smietana — March 22, 2022
(RNS) — The announced nominations are the latest salvo in the SBC’s ‘woke wars’ over social justice.

At Founders event, Southern Baptists urged to choose Bible over ‘paganism,’ CRT

By Bob Smietana — June 15, 2021
(RNS) — Critics of the current leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention say the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has ‘forgotten God.’

Without annual meeting, amid decline, Southern Baptists continue debate on race, women’s roles

By Adelle M. Banks — June 4, 2020
(RNS) — Southern Baptists have struggled over the meaning of critical race theory in particular and the direction of the denomination in general.

Head of Founders Ministries hospitalized

By Jack Jenkins — December 9, 2019
(RNS) — The prominent Baptist conservative is said to be in stable condition after collapsing in front of his congregation on Sunday.

Controversial Founders Ministries video leads to board resignations, #MeToo concerns

By Adelle M. Banks — August 2, 2019
(RNS) — According to statements from two board members, the inclusion of Rachael Denhollander in the trailer released July 23 appears to have been a particular sore point.

Video links Beth Moore, Russell Moore, James Merritt to ‘Trojan horse of social justice’

By Bob Smietana — July 23, 2019
(RNS) — Some targets of the video have called its accusations 'divisive' and 'cowardly, grossly dishonest, and bearing false witness.'
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