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Court-ordered mediation between a former Southern Baptist Convention president and lawyers for the nation's largest Protestant denomination failed last week — meaning the dispute between the two parties is likely headed to a trial in November.
NASHVILLE (BP) – The debate over how to increase participation at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting isn’t a new one. But even advances in technology don’t solve some of the inherent problems in remote participation, SBC Executive Committee members agreed last week.
A defamation lawsuit filed by Hunt has cost the nation's largest Protestant denomination $3 million so far. A trial date is set for Nov. 12 in Nashville.
At its 2024 synod in June, the Christian Reformed Church instructed LGBTQ-affirming congregations to repent and comply with the denomination’s beliefs on sexuality. Some are now choosing to leave.
WAYNESBORO, Miss. (BP) – In 2021, six remaining members of a dissolved church congregated. Over the past few years, the three couples of Oak Grove Church had watched the numbers dwindle as elderly members passed away and families moved on. With a well-maintained and fully furnished church building, the few…
The concern that church leaders have shown for Christians suffering for their faith since the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 has grown so much that most of a day and night was devoted to persecution at the fourth Congress in South Korea on Wednesday (Sept. 25).
Twentieth century theologian P.T. Forsyth’s work reminds Christians today to put the cross before and the world behind.
GRAND SALINE, Texas (BP) – The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) – It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator.
Charles “Chuck” Swindoll, who turns 90 years old next month, wrote on Sunday that he will step down next month as a pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. He graduated from Dallas...
