Southern Baptist Convention: New president Bart Barber wants the denomination to regain its rural soul
RILEY FARRELL, of Religion News Service, reports on how Barber, a pastor from rural Texas, has the task of pulling the SBC’s 13.7 million members “back from the brink”…
Southern Baptists: Key issues set to be discussed at annual gathering
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, takes a look at some of the major issues at stake in this week’s annual meeting of the largest Protestant denomination in the US…
In the US, Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers
United StatesAP A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors and other church personnel known to be abusers. The creation of an “Offender Information System” was one of the key recommendations […]
Updated: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims – US report
Updated: 8:45am, 24th May, 2022United StatesAP The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee – and thousands of its rank-and-file members – now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations. The report, issued […]
Southern Baptists: President Ed Litton on racial reconciliation, SBC decline and his own failings
Southern Baptist Convention president Ed Litton announced he wouldn’t be seeking a second term as the leader of the largest Protestant denomination in the US. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
Southern Baptist Convention president won’t seek a second term
RNS Ed Litton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, announced Tuesday he will break with tradition and not seek a second term in the top convention role. Litton, who narrowly fended off an ultraconservative candidate with his 2021 victory, said he plans to spend the next decade promoting racial […]
What to expect at this week’s Southern Baptist Executive Committee meeting
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS After four months of relative peace and quiet, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will meet this week, their first in-person gathering since a series of contentious meetings led to the resignation of more than a dozen committee members. The Nashville-based Executive Committee, which oversees the business of the nation’s largest Protestant […]
SBC president Ed Litton announces taskforce to oversee executive committee abuse review
RNS Southern Baptist Convention president Ed Litton has appointed a seven member taskforce to look into accusations the denomination’s executive committee mishandled allegations of abuse. The taskforce includes four Southern Baptist pastors, a lawyer, a social worker and the head of a Mississippi social service agency that works with children. Abuse advocate and attorney Rachael […]
New SBC President Ed Litton apologises for using JD Greear sermon quotes without credit
RNS The newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention has apologised for giving a sermon where he used material from his predecessor without revealing where it came from. A video posted on YouTube on Thursday showed clips of a January 2020 sermon on the New Testament book of Romans from Litton and clips from a January, […]
Who is Ed Litton, the new Southern Baptist Convention president?
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS In a hotly contested election decided by just over 500 votes, Alabama pastor Ed Litton was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Litton, the longtime pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, a congregation with 3,900 members, was considered a long shot in the presidential race. Two other candidates – Georgia […]