Faith leaders offer prayers as President Trump tests positive for COVID-19
RNS As news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test spread, prayers began flowing for his recovery and for the recovery of First Lady Melania Trump. Among the first to pray: former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the current presidential race. President Trump tweeted the news of his positive test shortly after midnight […]
Accusing Southern Baptist Convention of “caving”, US evangelical pastor John MacArthur speaks against women preachers
RNS US evangelical pastor John MacArthur, speaking at a celebration of his 50th year in pulpit ministry this week, weighed in on an ongoing debate in the Southern Baptist Convention over women preachers, claiming the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has lost faith in authority of the Bible. He claimed the SBC had taken a “headlong plunge” […]
In Dallas, Southern Baptist leaders gather to address church abuse
Dallas, USRNS On Thursday, members of the Southern Baptist Convention kicked off a three-day summit focused on confronting sexual abuse, with church leaders and abuse survivors calling for the rejection of a religious cultures that can perpetuate abuse and for new systems to protect the vulnerable. Hundreds of pastors and SBC members filled the sprawling […]
Controversial Founders Ministries video leads to board resignations, #MeToo concerns
RNS Several board members have resigned from a neo-Calvinist evangelical group that released a trailer of a planned film linking prominent Southern Baptists with a conspiracy to promote social justice advocacy in evangelical churches. The resignations, announced 1st August by Founders Ministries President Tom Ascol, come as some Southern Baptist leaders interviewed for the film […]
ESSAY: MOST SOUTHERN BAPTIST WOMEN WOULD WELCOME A WOMAN PASTOR. IT’S UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN
Against the backdrop of the Southern Baptist’s annual meeting being held in the US this week, RYAN BURGE, a political science teacher at Eastern Illinois University and co-founder of Religion in Public, looks – in an article first published on Religion News Service – at beliefs about women preachers…
Women sex abuse survivors tell Southern Baptists: “Our family is sick”
Birmingham, Alabama, USRNS Three women who experienced sexual abuse took center stage on Monday to address how the nation’s largest Protestant denomination should deal with the issue. And they didn’t mince words. Southern Baptist author and speaker Beth Moore speaks during a panel on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention […]
At US summit, prominent evangelicals share stories of sexual abuse
Wheaton, Illinois, US RNS For popular Bible teacher Beth Moore, the church always has been a safe harbour. That was especially true when she was growing up. Church was a place where she could escape from the sexual abuse she experienced at home, she said. Jenny Hwang, from left, Tammy Schultz, Nancy Nealious and Ed […]