Baptists working to foster fraternal relationships between churches in the United States and Cuba criticized President’s Trump plan to roll back some of the steps that President Obama took to open relationships between the two countries. “Effective immediately, I am…
Kentucky governor fires back at prayer walk critics
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin suggested last week on Facebook that clergy critics of his plan to fight crime by assigning roving bands of prayer warriors to walk blocks in West Louisville are probably going to hell. “I don’t know that…
In annual meeting do-over, Southern Baptists denounce ‘alt-right’ white supremacy
The Southern Baptist Convention condemned white supremacy in a resolution adopted 24 hours after a mostly white resolutions committee initially rebuffed a black pastor’s appeal to allow the issue to make it to the floor.
Satisfaction guaranteed: Southern Baptists refute efforts to soften the atonement
Christ died on the cross as a substitute for sinners, satisfying the wrath of a holy God, according to a Southern Baptist Convention resolution adopted June 13. Meeting June 13-14 in Phoenix, messengers to the 2017 SBC annual meeting passed…
CBF leaders side with pastor/judge in dispute over religion, bias
An Arkansas judge who also serves as a Baptist pastor told reporters last Friday his controversial participation in a Good Friday death penalty protest is protected by a state law passed in 2015 to bolster religious freedom after the U.S….
Southern Baptists have lost a million members in 10 years
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention declined for the 10th straight year, although at a slower pace than last year, while baptisms dropped to the lowest level in 70 years, according to statistics released in advance of the 2017 SBC…
SBC leader says senator’s religious questioning out of bounds
The head of the Southern Baptist Convention public policy and religious liberty arm blasted Sen. Bernie Sanders’ grilling of a potential White House official over comments about Islam. Sanders (I-Vt.) said during a June 7 nomination hearing that Trump nominee…
Former United Way executive nominated to lead CBF
Former St. Louis United Way CEO Gary Dollar has been nominated as 28th moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Dollar, a former member of the CBF Governing Board, will be voted on as moderator-elect when the 1,800-church Fellowship meets June…
Annie Armstrong’s home church at risk of foreclosure
The Southern Baptist church where Annie Armstrong was baptized is at risk of being evicted, according to an investigative story by the Baltimore Sun. Seventh Metro Church in Baltimore, formerly known as Seventh Baptist Church, wound up in tax auction…
Group wants Southern Baptists to remove gays from ‘sin list’
Picketers at next week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix will seek to persuade messengers and leaders to remove LGBT individuals from the “sin list” in the nation’s second-largest faith group. Faith in America, a North Carolina-based advocacy organization,…
Pastors seeking to empower West Louisville unimpressed by governor’s prayer-walk solution
A call by Kentucky’s governor to pray away gun violence in predominantly African-American West Louisville fell on deaf ears of clergy hoping for more tangible solutions to more than 50 homicides in the Commonwealth’s largest city so far in 2017….
Mosque backed by Baptists wins in lawsuit settlement
A religious liberty case that sparked controversy after two Southern Baptist Convention agencies filed legal briefs supporting the right of Muslims to build a mosque in New Jersey has been settled. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million in damages…