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On May 22, 2022; Johnny Hunt, the longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia; a former Southern Baptist Convention president who was serving as a member of the North American Mission Board, resigned from the North American Mission Board after the Guidepost report on sexual abuse in the SBC included an allegation that Hunt had ...
FILE - Congregants arrive at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention ousted its second-largest congregation ...
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 Southern Baptist Convention and its administrative committee settled a civil case over allegations of sexual abuse by a former SBC leader, ending the Nashville-based denomination’s ...
The postponed launch of a Southern Baptist Convention sexual predator database has been met with skepticism from some abuse ... Messengers at the denomination's 2022 annual meeting voted to have a ...
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 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 ...
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 ...