Southern Baptist pastor Mike Stone has filed a defamation lawsuit against theologian Russell Moore. Stone is accusing Moore of trying to destroy his personal and professional reputation.
Southern Baptist pastor Mike Stone has filed a defamation lawsuit against theologian Russell Moore. Stone is accusing Moore of trying to destroy his personal and professional reputation.
Since 2018, the Southern Baptist Convention has lost a series of high-profile leaders whose tenures ended due to controversy or misconduct. The latest to depart is Ronnie Floyd, a former megachurch pastor who resigned as president of the SBC’s Nashville-based Executive Committee in mid-October. With all of these leaders walking away, many are wondering who will ultimately lead the SBC.
Ronnie Floyd has resigned from his position as president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee (EC) over the Executive Committee's decision to waive attorney-client privilege amid a denominational sex abuse investigation.
The longtime general counsel for the Southern Baptist Convention is separating from the SBC and will no longer represent the group.
The SBC Committee has voted to waive attorney-client privilege as part of an investigation of how leaders have handled issues of sexual abuse. The vote ends a weeks-long debate.
During the SBC’s annual meeting in June, 15,000 convention messengers overwhelmingly approved a motion to launch the investigation of alleged sexual abuse.
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will meet for the third time in three weeks — hoping to resolve a stalemate over the details of an investigation into the committee’s own handling of sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee has delayed a decision to waive attorney-client privilege in an investigation into alleged sexual abuse within the denomonation.
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee agreed to spend $1.6 million to fund an outside review into how the committee has handled claims of sexual abuse over the past two decades.
Southern Baptists are at odds over how denominational leaders should handle the investigation into the widespread abuse allegations that plagued the denomination last year.
