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ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – WMU President Connie Dixon and Executive Director-Treasurer Sandy Wisdom-Martin urged Gospel conversations during their report to messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 14.
ANAHEIM (BP) – Blindness must be really hard, Jennifer Rothschild said, repeating her future daughter-in-law’s words to her. “It is very hard,” Rothschild responded, “but earth is short, and heaven is long.”
More than 200 churches across Georgia, Florida and Arkansas are leaving the United Methodist Church (UMC) because of the mainline Protestant denomination’s reticence to follow its Biblical rules prohibiting same-sex marriage and the ordination of “noncelibate homosexuals.” The UMC Book of Discipline currently defines homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching” and rejects the blessing of …
Southern Baptists adopted a resolution Tuesday rejecting the prosperity gospel, calling it false teaching and distortion of Scripture, particularly regarding Jesus Christ’s atoning work on the cross.
A pastor has warned attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting against using things like “politics,” “social justice,” and “music” to grow their congregations instead of the Gospel.
Theologian Tim Keller is “dealing with the side effects of an immunotherapy treatment that he is undergoing” amid his ongoing battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, his family announced in a social media post asking supporters for their prayers.
The Southern Baptist Convention has delayed a decision on whether to remove Rick Warren's Saddleback Church from the denomination in light of the California megachurch's ordination of three female pastors last year.
On Tuesday, Southern Baptists from across the nation met in California for a tumultuous annual convention fraught with drama, division and decisive
ANAHEIM, Calif.—The majority of the nearly 8,100 delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting raised yellow ballot cards on Tuesday to support abuse prevention measures in church...
Pastor Bart Barber of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, taking the helm of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
