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12 Jun 2018, 9:07 am by Tom Smith
He was later placed on leave.Then the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee resigned, citing "a morally inappropriate relationship in the recent past. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc., (ND MS, Jan. 18, 2018), a Mississippi federal district court rejected ministerial exception and ecclesiastical abstention defenses in a suit alleging intentional interference with business relationships, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  In Virginia, Patrick Henry had tried to establish the Episcopal Church, abusing the rights of Baptists and Presbyterians, but on the national level, no one denomination could be a majority. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Conference of Catholic Bishops; Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations;  National Association of Evangelicals; Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod; and Christian Legal Society argues in part:Major religious traditions—including those represented by amici—share the belief that a person’s identity as male or female is… [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
For example, the Catholic Church can exclude women from the priesthood and the Southern Baptist Convention can exclude LGBTQ and women from being pastors. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
There are many Protestants like the Presbyterians who are broken down into mainstream and fundamentalist segments, or the Baptists, which encompass Southern Baptist Convention and American Baptist Church members. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 8:22 am by Douglas NeJaime
As an amicus brief submitted in Obergefell by religious groups, including the National Association of Evangelicals, the Mormon Church, and the Southern Baptist Convention, argued: “Recognizing a new right to same-sex marriage would harm religious liberty. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 6:40 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
” Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, declared that the finding “will have wide-ranging and perilous consequences for the stability of families and for freedom of religion. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 2:26 pm by Michael Markarian
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has written to every member of the Tennessee House, urging them to support efforts to stiffen the penalties for animal fighting. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 8:45 am by Howard Friedman
 The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in a web posting is urging organizations and churches to set aside time that morning "to appeal to God to preserve marriage in our land. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
’ In Philadelphia the president of the National Baptist Convention Inc. condemned the film as a ‘disgrace. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 5:37 am
. -- fewer than the number of Baptists, Methodists, Mormons, Lutherans, or Presbyterians. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 The college is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, and offers it employees a self-insured plan through a third party administrator that is also an SBC affiliate. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 6:12 am
This exchange between Robert Williams, a gruff working-class leader, and Martin Luther King Jr., a prince of the black Baptist church who was rapidly rising to national prominence as a civil rights leader, forecast the political and class tensions that would be increasingly significant inside the southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. [read post]
21 May 2014, 10:35 am by Tom Smith
" As evidence, most of these outlets pointed to the comments of one pastor, Jimmy Scroggins of Florida, who spoke at a recent Southern Baptist ethics convention. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 6:30 am by Howard Friedman
The brief, filed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; National Association of Evangelicals; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod argues:Undermining the husband-wife marital institution by redefining it to include same-sex couples will, in the long term, harm vital child-welfare interests that only the husband-wife definition… [read post]
21 Dec 2013, 5:55 pm by Howard Friedman
 It granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement against all nonprofit religious organizations that provide benefits to employees through health plans sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention's GuideStone Financial Resources. [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 5:48 am by Howard Friedman
Today's Wall Street Journal carries a front-page feature story on Russell Moore who earlier this year took over leadership and changed the emphasis of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 5:59 am by Howard Friedman
The Becket Fund announced the filing of the class action by three Christian religious non-profits on behalf of over 100 ministries that currently receive health benefits through the Southern Baptist Convention's GuideStone Financial Resources, one of the largest multi-employer church health care plans in the country. [read post]