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The Southern Baptist Convention faces yet another crisis of identity at its upcoming annual meeting. Anticipation ahead of the 2022 and 2023 SBC annual meetings was one of existential angst ...
Heather Deal, left, and Nikki Hardeman, with the Baptist Women in Ministry, protest on June 11 for the right for women to be clergy, while standing outside the Southern Baptist Convention's annual ...
“The Southern Baptist Convention doesn’t dictate my personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” Smith said. CORRECTION (June 15, 2024, 12:02 a.m. ET): A previous version of this article ...
The Southern Baptist Convention failed to amend its constitution to ban women as pastors.
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
In 2023, Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Linda Smith, at the time, said her church didn't expect to appeal.
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States. Brent Leatherwood has served as the ERLC president since September 13, 2022. [ 1 ]
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted churches for having a woman pastor and over abuse-related reports, solidifying a trend in the recent reasons churches involuntary exit from the ...