What the SBC’s new survey on worship leaders says and doesn’t say

The Southern Baptist Convention released a large-scale study on worship leaders in SBC churches last week, and while the results may be alarming, they should not be surprising. Anyone who’s been paying attention for the last four decades should recognize...

Analysis Rick Pidcock

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Portland archdiocese files bankruptcy, halts civil suits on molestation claims

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