SBC
Saddleback Church’s ordination of women pastors to be considered by SBC committee
By Adelle M. Banks — June 16, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — ‘At the very least, I am asking that the validity of this matter be looked into,’ said a pastor at the Southern Baptists’ annual meeting.
Who is Ed Litton, the new Southern Baptist Convention president?
By Bob Smietana — June 16, 2021
(RNS) – A bridge builder whose life has been touched by tragedy, newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton faces the challenge of healing rifts in the country's largest Protestant denomination.
Black SBC leader urges African American fellowship to stay the course
By Adelle M. Banks — June 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — ‘I want to encourage you before you do anything, seek the will of God,’ said the Rev. Marshal Ausberry Sr.
Gavel named for slaveholder replaced with one recalling missionary at SBC meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — SBC President J.D. Greear is showing ‘the need for continuing to move from the past that we had to the present that we’re in,’ says a SBC historian.
In this crucial moment, Southern Baptist chief executive Ronnie Floyd is in over his head
By Benjamin Cole — June 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — The SBC's chief executive is increasingly hearing calls for his resignation.
SBC Executive Committee rejects request for system-wide abuse inquiry
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2021
(RNS) — Another committee member argued against a fellow member’s request, saying there is no one in the SBC who favors sex abuse.
From abortion and porn to women and race: How Southern Baptist Convention resolutions have evolved
By Ryan Burge — June 12, 2021
(The Conversation) — A religion data analyst scraped the texts of all Southern Baptist resolutions over the last 150 years. Here's what he found.
Russell Moore to ERLC trustees: ‘They want me to live in psychological terror’
By Religion News Service — June 2, 2021
(RNS) — In February 2020, the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission defended himself after a second task force was mounted to investigate complaints against him.
Justice for SBC sexual abuse victims: A call for an investigatory commission
By Christa Brown — May 20, 2021
(RNS) — Few abuse survivors anticipate the country’s largest Protestant faith group will effectively address its sexual abuse problem without the pressure of outside forces.
You’re right, Al Mohler, a downpour is coming
By Beth Allison Barr — May 13, 2021
(RNS) — In terms of the SBC stance on women preaching, a storm is indeed coming — just not from the direction Mohler thinks.
SBC President J.D. Greear: ‘God did not call Southern Baptists to save America’
By Bob Smietana — February 22, 2021
(RNS) — In a speech to the SBC Executive Committee meeting, Greear asked, ‘Do we want to be a gospel people, or a Southern culture people? Which is the more important part of our name — Southern or Baptist?’
‘We out’: Charlie Dates on why his church is leaving the SBC over rejection of critical race theory
By Charlie Dates — December 18, 2020
(RNS) — I had to tell my church I was wrong. There is no such thing as 'the Old Southern Baptists.' Conservatism is, and has always been, the god of the SBC.
There’s a new Baptist sex abuser database, but SBC action is still needed
By Christa Brown — May 4, 2020
(RNS) — For more than a decade, abuse survivor advocates have been asking the Southern Baptist Convention to establish a clergy predator database and for just as long they've been confronted with a denomination determined to do nothing.
Texas church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention for hiring sex offender as pastor
By Holly Meyer — February 19, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) — The church is the first to be recommended for removal by the newly formed Credentials Committee, which was created last year in response to the convention’s sexual abuse crisis.
The SBC’s same-sex abuse problem
By Russell L. Meek — December 18, 2019
(RNS) — If our zeal for a biblical view of sexuality outshines our desire to protect the people in our churches, something has gone very, very wrong.
