As Europe grapples with questions of religious identity, migration and social cohesion, Christian leaders from across the continent and beyond will gather in Stuttgart from March 17–21 for a training and networking event aimed at equipping churches to engage more thoughtfully and confidently with Muslim communities.
NEW ORLEANS (BP)— SBC Resolutions Committee Chair David Sons believes the nine resolutions messengers passed at the 2023 SBC annual meeting say much about who Southern Baptists are and their message to the world.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Messengers dealt with a number of key issues at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting June 13-14. The convention was originally scheduled to meet in Charlotte but was relocated to the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center due to larger crowds in recent years. There were…
Messengers with the Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly to advance a measure to prevent women from serving as a pastor of any kind, bringing the denomination one step closer to ...
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The WMU is all about being “full circle,” said Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of national WMU, in a report to the messengers June 13 during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans. She compared the 360 seconds of her report to the…
The Southern Baptist Convention s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force ARITF has been granted another year to fulfill mandates outlined by SBC messengers last year to help churches combat sexual ...
In a highly contentious move, today the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) reaffirmed its decision to expel two churches that have women pastors. During
As thousands of congregations have voted to leave The United Methodist Church since last year, one megachurch in Alabama has decided to stay with the denomination
Longtime megachurch pastor Michael Catt has died at the age of 70, just weeks after his family announced he entered hospice care
Church messengers to the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday that Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Ky., and Saddleback Church of Lake Forest, Calif., are not “in friendly cooperation...
Saddleback had been the denomination’s second-largest congregation and until recently was widely touted as a success story amid larger Southern Baptist membership declines.
