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Complaints of sexual abuse were mishandled by the US Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for decades, according to a report from an internal sexual abuse task force team released Sunday. [read post]
23 May 2022, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Yesterday, the report of an independent investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s Response to Sexual Abuse Allegations was released. [read post]
21 Oct 2021, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Suit was filed this week in a Tennessee federal district court by Michael Stone, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor of a congregation in Georgia, against Russell Moore, former head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 11:44 am by Jonathan Bailey
Back in June, Pastor Ed Litton was elected the President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in what was a close and contentious election. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Supreme Court yesterday in North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 7:00 am by Paul Caron
Russell Moore (President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention), The Gospel in a Democracy Under Assault: How can this be our country? [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Baptist Press, Seminary Presidents Reaffirm BFM, Declare CRT Incompatible: On this twentieth anniversary year of the Baptist Faith & Message (as revised and adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000), the Council of Seminary Presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in its annual session, hereby reaffirms with eagerness... [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:30 pm by Guest Blogger
’”[14]It was not until 1995 and 2008, respectively, that the Southern Baptist Convention and Bob Jones University apologized for their roles in using religious beliefs to uphold racism.[15]The historical record establishes beyond dispute that “the religious argument for segregation . . . was a quite widely held belief. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Southern Baptist Convention, June 1, 1998 Is it not baffling, then, that... [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (NAMB) was never McRaney’s employer. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Trump Leans into Attacks on Mail Voting, GOP Officials Confront Signs of Republican Turnout Crisis Washington Post – Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey | Published: 8/3/2020 Multiple public surveys show a growing divide between Democrats and Republicans about the security of voting by mail, with Republicans saying they are far less likely to trust it in November. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
It was opposed by conservative Christian groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and by groups that support LGBTQ rights, including Lambda Legal, HRC, and the ACLU. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, (ND MS, April 22, 2019), a Mississippi federal district court dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds a defamation suit by a the former executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware (BCMD). [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Stop the Tax on Houses of Worship, by Russell Moore (Southern Baptist Convention): A little-noticed provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 now looms over faith communities in America, raising serious questions about religious freedom and the First Amendment. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
Both the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church have pledged to forge a new path on this issue. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (ERLC) and U.S. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Vice President Mike Pence yesterday delivered a 35-minute address (full text) at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. [read post]