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Throughout the 20th century, controversy had flared up sporadically among Southern Baptists over the nature of biblical authority and how to interpret the Bible. Until 1925 the SBC did not have a specific, formal confession of faith; whenever an issue arose it had looked to two earlier and more general baptistic confessions of faith produced in the United States: the Philadelphia Confession of ...
Aderholt's arrest sparked a cascade of external independent examinations in the Southern Baptist Convention. [6] Paul Pressler, former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was accused by Toby Twining and Brooks Schott of sexual misconduct in separate court affidavits. [7] Both men said Pressler molested or solicited them for sex.
A six-month-old legal brief has sparked uproar and confusion throughout the Southern Baptist Convention over contradictions between the denomination’s professed stance on abuse versus its legal ...
When the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News published the 2019 exposé "Abuse of Faith," documenting how the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) spent more than 20 years covering up ...
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted churches for having a woman pastor and over abuse-related reports, solidifying the recent trend for churches and their involuntary exit from the ...
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 ...
The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. After the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee said Wednesday ...
The Baptist Medical Center sex reassignment surgery controversy occurred in 1977 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. Surgeons at the Baptist Medical Center, a hospital owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, were prohibited from performing sex reassignment surgery.