NASHVILLE (BP) — Depending on the source, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta platforms will jettison fact-checking protocols in favor of community notes is either a threat to democracy or a return to the spirit of free speech from when he co-founded Facebook in 2004.
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Preceding this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) church planting arm, hosted a kickoff event on Sunday evening, June 9, designed to set the focus for the busy days ahead.
CARMEL, Ind. (BP) – When Jared Barham brought students from his Indianapolis church to the first-ever Crossover Student Rally at Harvest Church in Carmel, Ind., he had big hopes. The associate pastor of youth at Northside Baptist Church in Indianapolis hoped they’d hear the Gospel from a different voice and…
A Roman Catholic parish in Kentucky is offering scheduled blessings for same-sex couples despite the Vatican s directive that such blessings should be spontaneous
Pastor Voddie T Baucham warned that the pervasive sexual sins of the prevailing culture are signs of divine judgment, but that the Gospel still offers hope and that Christians should plead with God ...
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – A former SBC seminary president is calling for the Convention to “repent, reset and recommit to its founding missional identity.” Chuck Kelley, president emeritus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, makes the impassioned plea in an essay released to Baptist Press just days before the 2024…
Before Southern Baptists gather for their annual meeting next week, this issue of A Public Witness offers some helpful context to explain how we got to the point where Donald Trump and Mike Pence — both speaking during the event — represent different wings of the SBC.
The national coalition of Southern Baptist churches will hold its annual meeting next week in Indianapolis, with plans to elect a new convention president and discuss alterations to the denominational...
The United Methodist Church Council of Bishops has issued an official response to the news that a regional body with over 1 million members had voted to leave the denomination