SBC president Ed Litton has appointed a seven-member task force to look into accusations of mishandling abuse by the denomination's Executive Committee.
SBC president Ed Litton has appointed a seven-member task force to look into accusations of mishandling abuse by the denomination's Executive Committee.
Ed Litton, the Southern Baptist Convention's new president, has apologized for delivering a sermon where he used material from his predecessor, J.D. Greear, without citing him.
The lack of trust within the denomination was palpable during the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, where local church messengers often overruled Baptist leaders from the meeting floor.
Last week, Southern Baptists passed a resolution seeking to abolish abortion with no exceptions. The resolution decried the use of incremental steps to end abortion. It laid down a bold and ultimately foolish agenda – no exceptions for the life of the mother and no small wins.
This week, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution calling for the immediate abolition of abortion "without exception or compromise."
Southern Baptists agree at the annual meeting to launch a major investigation in the denomination's response to widespread sex abuse within the SBC.
A Georgia pastor has identified up to 13 boys he says were sexually abused by a Southern Baptist minister whom top leaders of the denomination declined to inquire about with the minister's church.
A committee that determines whether churches are conforming to Southern Baptist Convention affiliation rules will consider whether the prominent Saddleback Church can continue in fellowship with the SBC after church leaders recently ordained three women pastors.
The Southern Baptist Convention elected pastor Ed Litton as the denomination's new president. Here are a few facts you should know about Litton.
This week, the Southern Baptist Convention is gathering in Nashville, Tennessee for what may be the denomination's most consequential denominational meeting for any Protestant denomination in the last 30 years. But who are Southern Baptists, and why is their vote on a new president and a series of resolutions reverberating so loudly across the entire American religious landscape?
