“While this database was inspired by SBC abuse, we have opened it to include Baptists of all flavors, not just SBC.”
Amy Butler tapped as interim at Disciples of Christ church in D.C.
She expressed excitement about pastoring a congregation that seeks to be a leader during a challenging period marked by pandemic and racial strife.
SBC continues downward slide in membership, attendance and Baptisms
A steadily declining Southern Baptist Convention has reported yet another decrease in membership, this one of nearly 2% to 14,525,579 from 2018 to 2019.
McLaren: progressive Baptists essential to countering politics, racism in the white church
“I think evangelicals and Baptists were closer to the truth 30 years ago when they used to say that character counts. I think the abandonment of character as a political standard is tragic and regrettable and we will reap what we have sown.”
Pandemic, civil unrest send clergy stress levels soaring
The coronavirus and ongoing racial tensions are sending clergy stress levels skyrocketing, ministers and health experts say.
Real or imagined, pressure is mounting on clergy to resume in-person services
“As a congregation and as a staff, the last thing we want is for someone to get sick and say it’s because they came to church.”
Is the pandemic-era church a church without baptisms, funerals and other major rituals?
“I have to ask myself: am I doing anything I was called to do when I became a pastor?”
Truett’s San Antonio extension to occupy space opened by Logsdon Seminary’s 2021 closure
Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary has announced it will launch an extension campus in San Antonio, Texas, in 2021.
Clergy behind push for justice in Ahmaud Arbery killing
“We seek to offer words of hope and unity and calls for justice,” Tony Lankford said.