Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network.
Southern Baptist author removes foreword by Joshua Harris from his book
A Southern Baptist pastor and former seminary professor asked a Christian publisher to remove a foreword written by Joshua Harris from future printings of a book published in 2013, after the well-known advocate of the evangelical purity culture announced he has fallen away from the Christian faith.
Woman claiming childhood sexual abuse sues Texas megachurch for $1 million
The woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe One, accuses The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, of gross negligence in her alleged sexual assault by Matthew Tonne, a former children’s pastor arrested in January.
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Baptist church group crosses state line to protest at ICE detention center
Members of a progressive North Carolina Baptist Church took a weekend road trip to demonstrate outside a privately owned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Farmville, Virginia.
Augie Boto, SBC leader who opposed abuse database, set to retire
A denominational worker who functioned as the Southern Baptist Convention’s point man in the ouster of churches for affirming homosexuality and the denomination’s response to sexual abuse is retiring at the end of September. August “Augie” Boto, 68, announced July…
Transitions for the week of 7-26-19
Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network. Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Garrett Young…
Clergy ask Texas to end policy banning chaplains from execution chamber
Interfaith clergy, including leaders in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, released a statement July 23 calling on the state of Texas to drop its ban on prison chaplains from its execution chamber, imposed after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the state could not execute an inmate without allowing a Buddhist chaplain to be in the room at his time of death.
Tennessee Baptist leaders recruiting churches to lobby for abortion ban
The Tennessee Baptist Convention launched an online petition July 23 to rally the state’s 3,000 Southern Baptist churches in support of legislation to ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
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Baptist World Alliance supports ‘equal space’ for women in church leadership
During a recent meeting in the Bahamas, the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance issued a strongly worded resolution calling on global Baptists to repent of teachings, language and practices that are harmful to women.
Small church makes big news with ‘America, love it or leave it’ sign
An independent fundamentalist Baptist church in Virginia entered a national debate over President Donald Trump’s tweet urging four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their home countries with an outdoor sign saying “America: Love or Leave It.”