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Some pastors optimistic about Millennials, church growth. Stats don’t bear them out.

Some pastors — especially among evangelicals and Pentecostals — believe worship attendance will grow as more churches embrace congregational and leadership diversity in ethnicity, gender and generation, new research has found. LifeWay Research reported those attitudes gathered in a survey…

The national conversation about sexual abuse by Baptist clergy is important. But it doesn’t go far enough

Churches must address three foundational issues if they are truly going to become safe spaces for children.

Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse

Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.

Religion Notes: New CBF leader headed for Texas; GWU elects new president

The new executive director of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will tour parts of Texas during his first week on the job. Paul Baxley is to address meetings in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, San Antonio and Houston March 20-22, Fellowship…

Church with deported member premieres podcast about injustice in U.S. immigration system

A Baptist church in North Carolina is marking the one-year anniversary of a member’s deportation with a podcast series reminding just how inhospitable the United States can be. “Inhospitable,” a limited series podcast telling the story of U.S. immigration enforcement…

Can Christians come together to reduce the need for abortion?

Christians should put aside ideologies and heated rhetoric to focus on the effective ways we can work across theological differences toward a shared goal of reducing the need for abortion. There is clear, research-based evidence to point the way.

Leading Southern Baptist apologizes for supporting leader, church at center of sex abuse scandal

In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Al Mohler said for the first time publicly that he regrets his embrace of C.J. Mahaney, the former leader of the non-Southern Baptist group Sovereign Grace Ministries, now known as Sovereign Grace Churches.

Southern Baptist minister list included sex offenders

An online directory of Southern Baptist ministers included at least five names that are also included in a new database of convicted sex offenders with Southern Baptist ties compiled in an investigation by two Texas newspapers.

Jerry Johnson resigns as NRB president

Though neither NRB nor Johnson has stated a reason for the resignation, NRB board chair Michael Little said in a news release Johnson’s departure “leaves no question about his outstanding moral character.

Pray for immigrants? We need them to pray for us, minister-activist says

Religious leaders gathered at a vigil in December to declare support for Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, an El Salvadoran immigrant who had just taken sanctuary in a Maryland church to avoid deportation. Baptist minister and immigrant rights activist Julio Hernandez was…

3 faulty assumptions that keep Baptist churches from hiring female pastors

Churches which have opened their pulpits to both genders have made a discovery: Women, just like men, are fully capable of offering strong and visionary church leadership as well as thoughtful, healthy pastoral care. Likewise, females are just as able to provide Christ-honoring preaching and worship leadership.

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit