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SBC calls for ‘immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise’

One resolution against abortion wasn’t enough for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. After messengers (voting members) to the SBC gathering in Nashville on June 15 adopted a strongly worded resolution opposing abortion and calling for continuation of the…

Convention sermon calls out Southern Baptists for sometimes being ‘jerks’

The Southern Baptist Convention has developed an alarming and off-putting reputation for malicious debate and rancorous name-calling while attempting to stand against Critical Race Theory and other forms of humanistic liberalism, Willy Rice preached during the SBC annual meeting June…

SBC messengers rebuke Executive Committee’s attempt to control investigation of its response to sexual abuse crisis

In a rare and sharp rebuke of its top staff leader, the Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday, June 16, said the SBC Executive Committee cannot investigate itself as its president, Ronnie Floyd, had attempted to do. Floyd, who has been…

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SBC steers a decidedly conservative course but rejects the most far-right agenda while putting Executive Committee and Ronnie Floyd on notice

While affirming bread-and-butter conservative issues on the first day of its annual meeting June 15, the Southern Baptist Convention turned back attempts at harder-line positions desired by the most conservative bloc of the body. That included a narrow rejection of…

Outgoing SBC president affirms conservative values while decrying legalism

In his last address as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear urged leaders and members of the denomination to support sexual abuse victims, stand with people of color in their struggle against racism and to stop equating politics…

My story and the Southern Baptist Convention

Some will question the veracity of the fact that I feel bad about what is happening to the Southern Baptist Convention in light of the story I am telling for the first time in such a public forum. If ever…

If Critical Race Theory really were about what my state representative says it is, I’d oppose it too

Rep. Jeremy Faison, chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives Republican Caucus, recently wrote his “Viewpoint” regarding House Bill 580, outlawing Critical Race Theory in Tennesse schools. And it was published in the Newport Plain Talk, a local newspaper. He…

Melissa Rogers: America’s faith traditions can unify and heal wounds

While religious ideologies are increasingly cited as toxic and divisive forces in American culture and politics, faith also can heal those wounds when Americans unite around common causes such as hunger, poverty and disaster relief, according to Melissa Rogers. The…

Just because you believe the Bible ‘says it’ doesn’t ‘settle it’

Perhaps you’ve heard someone say, “The Bible says it; I believe it; that settles it!” On the brink of the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, it appears that Baptists continue to wrestle with diverse perspectives on how to read,…

SBC Executive Committee declines to entertain the idea of broadening the scope of its investigation of itself

As an anticipated 17,000 messengers descended on Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 14, the SBC Executive Committee defended its decision to pre-emptively investigate itself and refused to broaden the scope of that investigation. Meanwhile, a North…

SBC fight symbolizes the mean-spirited religious impulses of the nation, BNG panelist suggests

The turmoil engulfing the Southern Baptist Convention over its handling of sexual abuse allegations, racial injustice and gender inequality are both a result and an expression of a mean-spirited religious impulse that also has divided the U.S. politically and culturally,…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war