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(Editor’s Note: This story has been updated since being published in our May issue.) Elections at next month’s Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Anaheim, Calif., will feature four candidates with current or previous ties to South Carolina — a... Continue Reading »
In a second, special called virtual meeting Oct. 5, members of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee voted 44-31 to waive attorney-client privilege in a third-party investigation of the EC and its handling of sexual abuse claims. The approved... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is scheduled to hold a special session on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, according to Rolland Slade, EC chairman. The central issue of the meeting, which will be live-streamed, is the... Continue Reading »
Although venerated as one of the winningest coaches in college football who led his teams to finish as an AP top-5 team for 14 consecutive seasons and garner two national championships, such accolades are not how Bobby Bowden would... Continue Reading »
From the moment the gavel dropped – or actually, with the gavel that dropped – calling them to order, it was clear that messengers to the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville were ready to... Continue Reading »
Annual Church Profile data collected for 2020 by LifeWay Christian Resources shows the staggering impact of COVID-19 but also the faithfulness of Southern Baptists to give to missions, even when many couldn’t gather for in-person worship for much of... Continue Reading »
By Scott Barkley and George Schroeder A task force studying the effectiveness of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission issued its report in February, acknowledging both support within the Southern Baptist Convention for the entity and that some see... Continue Reading »
A task force studying the effectiveness of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission issued its report Feb. 1, acknowledging both support within the Southern Baptist Convention for the entity, and that some see it as “a source of significant... Continue Reading »
As days stretched into weeks stretched into months, COVID-19 seemed to spread everywhere — and into almost everything. Here’s a look at the top SBC stories of 2020 as selected by Baptist Press: COVID-19: A global pandemic arrives 2020... Continue Reading »
Former NFL tight end Benjamin Watson and his family, through an ongoing partnership with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s Psalm 139 Project, donated an ultrasound machine to the Palmetto Women’s Center in Rock Hill, S.C., and gave Christmas... Continue Reading »
Written by: Stephen Douglas Wilson Baptists of the South and the faith community of Southern Baptists after 1845 originally did not attach much significance to Christmas. The holiday is not recognized as a special day of worship in any... Continue Reading »
The International Mission Board has issued a statement which it says clarifies and corrects previous statements made by the IMB that appeared in articles published in July 2018 in Baptist Press. The articles, published July 16, 2018, and July... Continue Reading »
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