Protests over a speech at Baylor University by a conservative blogger on record as opposing the “LGBT agenda” prompted more than 2,200 current and former students and other supporters to call on the historically Baptist school to formally recognize a gay-straight student alliance denied a charter since its founding in 2011.
Tennessee clergy oppose attempts to reverse gains by sexual minorities
Faith leaders say a group of bills in the Republican-controlled state legislature “promote discrimination rather than justice and demean the worth of LGBTQ people in our state.”
Contested congressional election wide open after Mark Harris decides not to run
Republicans seeking nomination for the last open seat in the 116th United States Congress face a wide-open field after a former Southern Baptist pastor initially declared winner of the race said he will not campaign in an upcoming special election…
Nashville Statement controversy goes Dutch
About 250 pastors are in Dutch after their names appeared on a translated document by fundamentalist Christians in the United States being received in the Netherlands as bigotry against the LGBTQ community.
Kentucky Baptist Convention formally excludes churches dually aligned with CBF
The Kentucky Baptist Convention no longer welcomes churches that dually align with the moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Just over 400 messengers at the state affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Pikeville, Kentucky, voted Tuesday to approve a…
Atlanta agrees to pay to $1.2 million to former fire chief Kelvin Cochran
The city of Atlanta has agreed to pay a former fire chief fired for writing a book critical of homosexuality $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming religious discrimination.
Competing Baptist bodies grapple with their identity in Dallas
As national media flocked to Dallas to watch the Southern Baptist Convention reckon with a generational shift in thinking about women, race and partisan politics, one light rail stop away a smaller and lesser-known group met under the radar to…
Southern Baptists officially end ties with District of Columbia Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention has cut ties with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention over disagreement about whether such organizations should include congregations with conflicting views on homosexuality.
Former Southern Baptist pastor wins North Carolina primary bid for Congress
Mark Harris, a former Southern Baptist pastor and past president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, won Tuesday’s primary race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat from a Republican incumbent who narrowly beat him two years ago.
Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders propose end to dual alignment with CBF
Churches dually aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Kentucky Baptist Convention will be no more, if messengers to the KBC fall annual meeting agree with the convention’s credentials committee.
Baptist association expels church for pastor’s support of gay rights
An American Baptist church in West Virginia has been removed from its local association because its pastor does not believe that homosexuality is a sin.
Former Southern Baptist ‘third way’ pastor stepping down
A former Southern Baptist pastor kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention for changing his mind about homosexuality is stepping down from the church he helped start 20 years ago.