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Capping a 16-year process, the International Mission Board will begin receiving 51 percent of national Cooperative Program receipts annually in the 2026–2027 fiscal year, messengers to the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando voted. Messengers rejected a proposed amendment... Continue Reading »
“If you took all the people on our planet with disabilities and added them together, you would have the third largest country in the world, just behind India and China,” asserted Tom Stolle, executive director of the Baptist Convention... Continue Reading »
SBC messengers are weary of task forces and study groups. They proved it June 9–10 with their votes on motions at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. Messengers also gave the first of two required two-thirds approvals of... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptists, in a resolution, warned against a cultural rebranding of assisted suicide as a form of medical care and reaffirmed their commitment to the sanctity of life from conception until natural death at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting... Continue Reading »
Last week, South Carolinians in Georgetown County were devastated by accusations that leaders at Pawleys Island Community Church (PICC) and its affiliated Christian Academy (PICA) knowingly allowed a registered sex offender to serve at the church/academy in close proximity... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptists celebrated 63 new International Mission Board missionaries during the opening session of the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. As missionaries took the stage and stood on the floor of the Orange County Convention Center, church messengers listened as... Continue Reading »
Florida pastor Willy Rice was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the June 9 afternoon session of the 2026 SBC annual meeting at the Orange County Convention Center. Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, garnered 5,217... Continue Reading »
As he spoke with the media June 10 at the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler leaned on one word to consistently answer a question posed in numerous ways. It was the word... Continue Reading »
(Editors’ note: The following is the final installment of a four-part series devoted to the role of Baptists in the development of religious liberty in America in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary.) The passage of the First Amendment,... Continue Reading »
(Editors’ note: The following is Part 3 of a four-part series devoted to the role of Baptists in the development of religious liberty in America.) “This battle for religious liberty was fought and won largely by Virginia Baptists, but... Continue Reading »
(Editors’ note: The following is Part 2 of a four-part series devoted to the role of Baptists, particularly South Carolinians, in the development of religious liberty in America. Additional pieces will run in recognition to the nation’s 250th anniversary.)... Continue Reading »
(Editors’ note: The following is Part 1 of a 4-part series devoted to the role of Baptists in the development of religious liberty in America. Additional pieces will run in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary. Baptists in the... Continue Reading »
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