Two days after saying Arkansas Supreme justices do not have to testify in an ethics complaint against a judge photographed at an anti-death penalty demonstration more than two years ago, a statewide commission that monitors judicial conduct canceled a hearing scheduled June 13.
Abuse survivors take center stage in lead up to next week’s Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention meets next week after revelations of widespread stories of sexual abuse and coverup in a six-part series of investigative reports by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.
Petition demanding Southern Baptist seminary pay reparations collecting signatures online
Former faculty members at a Southern Baptist Convention seminary and Baptist professors at other schools joined a call urging financial reparations to American descendants of slavery in a petition now collecting signatures on change.org.
Transitions for the week of 6-7-19
Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network.
Falwell says pastor who prayed for Trump should ‘grow a pair’
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. seemed unimpressed by Pastor David Platt’s explanation of why he prayed alongside President Donald Trump during a worship service last Sunday.
Southern Seminary leadership nixes idea of reparations for historically black college
A Southern Baptist seminary that in February lamented its historical ties to slavery is unwilling to make monetary reparations to a nearby historically black Baptist college, according to the seminary’s president and trustee chairman.
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Trump drops by megachurch to pray with pastor who formerly led the IMB
The former head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board on Sunday prayed alongside Donald Trump when the president made an unannounced visit to a Virginia megachurch.
Gay-friendly church withdraws from Texas Baptist body
A church that recently announced it will allow same-sex weddings has withdrawn voluntarily from the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Baptist professor quits over comments made in chapel about women’s bodies
A Louisiana College professor resigned in protest in February, claiming administrators at the Baptist school tried to suppress criticism of a chapel speaker for using sexualized imagery and leaving the impression that a woman’s value is measured by her physical appearance and sexual history.
Transitions for the week of 5-31-19
Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network.