Southern Baptist Convention
Bruce Frank, former SBC abuse task force leader, joins crowded SBC presidential race
By Bob Smietana — April 2, 2024
(RNS) — The new SBC president will likely play a key role in the future of abuse reforms in the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
Mohler and the abortion abolitionists don’t take sin seriously enough
By Karen Swallow Prior — March 25, 2024
(RNS) — Abortion is a failure not just of individuals but also of the village.
A feud over a coffeemaker and Christmas decor leads to another Southern Baptist lawsuit
By Bob Smietana — March 22, 2024
(RNS) — The lawsuit, filed by former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Adam Greenway, is the latest of the seminary's long-term fiscal woes.
Southern Baptists elect Jeff Iorg to lead Executive Committee
By Bob Smietana — March 21, 2024
(RNS) — Iorg is best known for his long and steady leadership at Gateway Seminary in California. His election ends a two-and-a-half-year-long search for a new Executive Committee leader.
Why would survivors attend the Southern Baptist Convention meetings?
By Tiffany Thigpen — March 15, 2024
(RNS) — It is walking into what feels like a den of lions.
Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing
By Peter Smith — March 11, 2024
(AP) — The SBC has faced a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse since a 2019 report by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express News, documenting hundreds of abuse cases in Southern Baptist churches.
SBC task force plans to start nonprofit to oversee abuse database and reforms
By Bob Smietana — February 19, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — The new nonprofit is designed to get past the SBC Executive Committee’s ongoing financial and legal challenges.
Will the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program crumble?
By Bob Smietana — February 19, 2024
(RNS) — For nearly a century, Southern Baptist churches have banded together to raise funds for mission in the US and around the world, raising more than $20 billion through their Cooperative Program. But the trust that once held the program together is fraying.
Aaron Ivey, pastor and husband of podcaster Jamie Ivey, accused of ‘indecent’ texts with men
By Roxanne Stone — February 11, 2024
(RNS) — Elders at his Austin, Texas, church said in a statement announcing his dismissal that they had discovered a ‘very clear pattern of predatory manipulation, sexual exploitation, and abuse of influence’ by Ivey.
An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention
By Karen Swallow Prior — February 9, 2024
(RNS) — Dear SBC, you don’t have to be this way.
Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee faces more abuse lawsuits
By Bob Smietana — February 7, 2024
(RNS) — A pair of new lawsuits, including one that includes civil RICO claims, come at a time when the SBC Executive Committee faces a fiscal and leadership crisis.
Calling a Black female leader, American Baptists offer a home for progressive Baptists
By Anna Piela — January 31, 2024
(RNS) — The ABCUSA has an opportunity at a time when major shifts are taking place in Baptist faith at large.
Judges say lawsuit against CBN pastor Brad Jurkovich, a Mike Johnson ally, should go forward
By Bob Smietana — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Former church members allege that Jurkovich and other church leaders illegally changed the church's articles of incorporation to require unquestioned loyalty to the pastor.
A Southern Baptist leader hid decades of abuse. Will his fall doom SBC abuse reforms?
By Bob Smietana — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — Revelations about the decadeslong abuse by a prominent SBC leader have led to fears that the denomination's sex-abuse reforms are doomed to fail.
The SBC will sell insurance, retirement to women pastors — if they aren’t Southern Baptists
By Bob Smietana — January 10, 2024
(RNS) — In 2004, Southern Baptists voted to allow their insurance and retirement agency to work with other churches. The latest denomination to sign up is the Global Methodist Church, made up of former United Methodists.
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