When Naghmeh Panahi’s Christian-pastor husband was imprisoned in Iran, she found one of her biggest advocates in a powerful evangelical leader, the Rev. Franklin Graham.
The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The Southern Baptist Convention, holding its 2022 annual meeting in Anaheim, California, today explored the possibility of breaking ties with California’s Saddleback Church, according to news reports.
This morning, I had a headline pop up on my phone:
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention published a 205-page list Thursday evening of hundreds of ministers and other church workers it described as being “credibly accused” of sexual abuse.
Pastor Cited in Southern Baptist Convention Report on Abuse Worked at Churches in Oak Cliff, Texas, Garland, Texas, and Richardson, Texas A Florida pastor who was cited in a Southern Baptist Convention investigative report worked at churches in Oak Cliff and the Dallas suburbs of […]
Two decades ago, Vance Pitman and a pair of friends from the Bible Belt went out west to start a church in Sin City.
Despite his criticism of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Council of Seminary Presidents’ statement on critical race theory, outspoken SBC Pastor Dwight McKissic was blessed by one of the council’s six members after water damaged his Texas home amid wild winter weather this week.
After civil rights icon and Democratic Congressman John Lewis’ death was announced Friday, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear honored his memory by sharing one of his tweets from 2015. The tweet, which included a smiling mug shot of the late congressman, said: “Even though I was arrested, […]
https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/webRNS-Darrin-Patrick7-050820.jpg Darrin Patrick, who founded The Journey megachurch in Missouri and served as a teaching pastor at the South Carolina-based multi-site Seacoast Church, died at the age of 49, the church said Friday.
Influential evangelicals are calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to utilize “alternatives to detention” and release some detained undocumented immigrants as they await their hearings so long as they don’t pose a threat to public safety.
The Southern Baptist Convention announced Tuesday that its Annual Meeting has been canceled due to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
