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The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted Saddleback Church because of its female pastors. Benjamin Cole, the Baptist Blogger, explains how this represents the SBC's drift to the right.
The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors. The ...
As of February 21, 2023, the church was removed from the SBC membership list due to the hiring of a female pastor in 2022, Stacie Wood, the wife of new senior pastor Andy Wood. [18] [19] [20] On May 16, the Southern Baptist Convention announced that Saddleback was seeking an appeal to be reinstated in fellowship. In June 2023, when it requested ...
What started as a fringe idea later permeated into the mainstream when the convention voted overwhelmingly at the 2023 SBC annual meeting to uphold the ouster of Saddleback Church in Southern ...
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren ...
The Southern Baptist Convention decided Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the second-largest congregation of the convention, because it has a female pastor. Saddleback Church ordained women.
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Jerry Vines - President of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1988 to 1990 and as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida; Rick Warren - former pastor of the 20,000+ member Saddleback Church in California and author of The Purpose-Driven Life; David W. Whitlock - 15th President of Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK