#MeToo
Amid a #MeToo culture, Southern Baptists mull ways to increase women’s roles
By Adelle M. Banks — June 12, 2018
DALLAS (RNS) — There has been recent speculation about whether someday, or sooner, a woman should be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention president.
Patterson won’t address meeting as Southern Baptists gather amid scandals
By Adelle M. Banks — June 8, 2018
(RNS) — 'The mood of the Southern Baptist Convention right now would be similar to that of the country after Watergate,' said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
J.D. Greear is ready to give Southern Baptists a makeover
By Yonat Shimron — June 6, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — If he wins the presidency next week, he will be the youngest SBC leader in two generations and usher in a more urban, entrepreneurial spirit, eager to transcend partisan divisions.
A reckoning for Southern Baptists, and an opportunity
By Jacob Lupfer — June 1, 2018
(RNS) — The daily drumbeat of bad news about SBC leaders has set the stage for the denomination’s annual meeting in Dallas this month. Will the meeting accelerate a decline? Or could it be the start of a revival? Our columnist's advice: Don’t write off the Southern Baptist Convention.
Seminary board fires Paige Patterson in dramatic turnabout
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2018
(RNS) — The about-face from the board caps a dramatic fall for Patterson, one of the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s theological shift to the right and once a lionized figure within America’s largest Protestant denomination.
Southern Baptists have more repenting to do
By Brian D. McLaren — May 29, 2018
(RNS) — Unfortunately, the bulk of Albert Mohler’s agony and call for mercy focused not on the pain suffered by women and girls at the hands of church leadership, but on the 'humiliation' of his tribe, the SBC, which is led exclusively by men.
Southern Baptists see ‘judgment of God’ in #MeToo reckoning
By Yonat Shimron — May 24, 2018
(RNS) — For some Southern Baptists, the treatment of a seminary president removed from office for his comments about women rankled — especially among a younger generation of pastors who are trying to evangelize to a modern setting.
Paige Patterson removed as head of Southern Baptist seminary in #MeToo shake-up
By Yonat Shimron — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — The departure represents the most dramatic example of the #MeToo movement pervading the top reaches of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson apologizes to women ‘wounded’ by remarks
By Adelle M. Banks — May 10, 2018
(RNS) — 'To all people I offer my apology, but especially to women, to the family of Southern Baptists, my friends and the churches,' he said.
Why Paige Patterson’s apology may not be enough
By Jonathan Merritt — May 10, 2018
(RNS) — Southern Baptists cannot move on because they've been thrust into a larger cultural conversation.
Thousands of Southern Baptist women sign petition against Paige Patterson
By Yonat Shimron — May 7, 2018
(RNS) — Dated Sunday, the letter had been signed by more than 2,000 women as of Monday afternoon.
The ’Splainer: Paige Patterson and the SBC’s stance on wifely submission
By Yonat Shimron — May 4, 2018
(RNS) — Patterson’s comments touched off a flurry of condemnation. But the Southern Baptist Convention has had a long history of conservative stances on women that it maintains are based on Scripture.
Publishers stop printing Hybels’ books amid allegations of inappropriate behavior
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 26, 2018
(RNS) — Several publishers have suspended printing books by former Willow Creek Community Church pastor Bill Hybels as the Chicago-area megachurch he founded more than 40 years ago investigates allegations of his inappropriate behavior toward women.
Willow Creek responds to new allegations against former pastor Hybels
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 23, 2018
SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (RNS) – The elders of Willow Creek Community Church are pledging to renew their investigation of the church’s former pastor, Bill Hybels, as more allegations of inappropriate conduct with women surface.
Still evangelical? Literary festival panelists question label after Trump, #MeToo
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 18, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — More than a year into Trump’s presidency, female Christian writers discussed how it has strained their relationships with American evangelicalism.
