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Willie McLaurin will be the interim president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. The EC officers made the announcement Feb. 1. Since 2020, McLaurin has served as the vice president for Great Commission relations and mobilization at the... Continue Reading »
Generous donors ensured a record harvest for Mission:Dignity during the recent national Giving Tuesday emphasis — more than $1.2 million was raised to provide financial assistance to retirement-age Southern Baptist ministers, workers and their widows struggling to meet basic... Continue Reading »
Matt Henslee, president of the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference, has come up with a fun and creative way to introduce the 12 pastors scheduled to speak at the conference. The video announcement, titled “The 12 Days of... Continue Reading »
The sexual abuse task force investigating the potential mishandling of sexual abuse claims by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee gave an update on its website Nov. 11. The task force is partnering with Guidepost Solutions to conduct the... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary filed a petition on Nov. 5 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to block President Biden’s enforcement of a mandate requiring employees of... Continue Reading »
Grant Gaines, pastor of BellAire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., presented the following motion, which was overwhelmingly approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2021 annual meeting in Nashville: I move that the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting June... Continue Reading »
The following is a transcript of comments made by Rolland Slade, chair of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, at the close of the group’s special called meeting on Oct. 5: I can say to you truly as chairman... Continue Reading »
South Carolina’s Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee trustees — David Sons, pastor of Lake Murray Baptist Church in Lexington, and Dwight Easler, pastor of Corinth Baptist Church in Gaffney — recently sat down with The Courier to discuss the... Continue Reading »
Longtime convention attorneys Jim Guenther and Jaime Jordan alerted SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Ronnie Floyd Oct. 11 that the law firm of Guenther, Jordan & Price has “no choice” but to “withdraw … from [its] role as... 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 »
Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, announced his resignation Oct. 14 in a letter to Southern Baptists released by email. Floyd pointed to the actions taken by trustees in a special called meeting on Oct.... Continue Reading »
More U.S. Protestant churches are gathering in person since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and pastors say most churchgoers have returned as well. Almost all U.S. Protestant pastors (98 percent) say their church met in person in August, according to... Continue Reading »
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