A New York town told a Catholic church that its annual Christmas tree fundraiser violated its zoning laws. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in the Village of The Branch in Long Island, New York, urged ...
NASHVILLE (BP) – A recently retired Kentucky Baptist pastor will be nominated to serve as the SBC Executive Committee transitional interim president and CEO this week in Nashville. The nomination of Dan Summerlin will be a joint recommendation of Philip Robertson, EC chairman, Jonathan Howe, current interim, and the EC…
NASHVILLE (BP) – SBC President Bart Barber reminded Executive Committee members that Southern Baptists have been this way before, threatened by “monetary shortfalls, leadership scandals, doctrinal conflict and political humiliation,” but the vision of cooperation that united them prevailed a century ago and can prevail now.
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The green flag for 2024 SBC Annual Meeting hotel reservations drops on Oct. 2. The listing of convention hotels is now available for those wanting to survey the field.
In a historic move for the Southern Baptist Convention, Kevin Smith has been unanimously elected as the chairperson for the Ethics Religious Liberty Commission ERLC by its board of trustees
SALISBURY, Md. (BP) – Send Network’s new podcast, “Terminal: The Dying Church Planter,” is more than just a story about a guy with cancer, said producer Tony Hudson. It’s a story about one man’s monsters, metamorphosis, church planting ministry and church members. Most of all, it’s the story of God’s…
One of my favorite lines in all of literature is a humorous and somewhat cryptic speech delivered by Bilbo Baggins during his eleventy-first birthday party: “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as…
NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Executive Committee has made staff adjustments today (Sept. 13) that eliminate five staff positions and two contractor positions, according to a statement.