ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Kevin Ezell will host a series of information sessions for Texas Southern Baptist pastors whose churches are affiliated of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). The sessions, which will take place in early 2025, are intended to answer questions…
NASHVILLE (BP) – On Tuesday (June 4) Southern Baptists’ Abuse Reform and Implementation Task Force (ARITF) released its final report and recommendations ahead of the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. The recommendations highlight the release of a new curriculum designed to help local churches of all sizes “establish or…
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Bart Barber wants the messengers’ voices to be heard at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting. The second-term SBC president has been pondering ways to hold a smoother meeting and to give messengers more opportunities to speak.
NASHVILLE (BP) – May Cooperative Program totals were 4.35 percent above budget goals and 3.37 percent above last May’s totals. CP receipts so far this fiscal year are 1.2 percent below budget targets and .3 percent above the same point last year.
Police in Mitchell, South Dakota, are investigating after Congregational United Church of Christ, an LGBT-affirming congregation planning to host a gay pride event this month, was vandalized with ...
A spokeswoman for the families of Davy and Natalie Lloyd said on Friday that the bodies of the slain missionaries had landed safely at an airport in Kansas City, Mo. The spokeswoman, Cass Bowen Anders...
As the United Methodist Church recently made decisions at its general conference regarding the ordination of homosexual pastors, among other issues, it has stirred repercussions in Korea, where there ...
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – A pair of apps have been released to aid messengers as well as those not able to make it to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting and Pastors’ Conference next week.
Two days after teasing his audience with a new chapter that he plans to reveal on June 4, former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz said that new chapter doesn t involve returning to the pulpit, but he ...
Leveraging social media, these parents and professionals aim to show that this parenting approach can result in trauma, estrangement and views of God as abusive.