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With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, pastors and church leaders are urging their congregations to shatter the stigma and advising that mental health isn't always a spiritual issue.
NASHVILLE (BP) – Baptist Press has compiled a list of public statements from Southern Baptist leaders regarding the findings of an investigation by Guidepost Solutions into the SBC Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse claims.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) – This past Sunday (May 22), Heritage Baptist Church made a historic step toward reaching their neighbors – they called Frederick L. Harris Sr. to be their minister of one mile missions.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church is suing the former head of its retirement service and 10 other individuals and entities, alleging a sophisticated scheme to defraud millions from the retirement funds of its pastors.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Kevin Ezell and NAMB Board of Trustees chairman Eric Thomas issued a joint statement Wednesday (May 25) outlining steps NAMB will be taking to identify, investigate and address issues of sex abuse.
A wave of announcements is expected from the Southern Baptist Convention on the heels of a devastating third party report that exposed a two
LA MESA, Calif. — When The Christian Chronicle staff met in March to talk about the “Where have all the churches gone?” project, I told my long-suffering editor I didn’t want to just write about dying churches for seven months. “That will just depress everyone, especially me,” I remember saying. While I wanted to […]
Where is the Church of Scotland going? The answer is: to extinction.
The General Assembly agreed to "urge the Scottish Government to ban conversion therapy and instruct the [Faith Impact] Forum to make representations to the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament".
LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP) – As many of you are probably aware, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), in particular, the SBC Executive Committee (EC), has been under investigation for its handling of sexual abuse instances involving pastors or church members in local Southern Baptist churches from June 2001-June 2021.
