In the US, chaos erupts over SBC legal filing in Louisville abuse lawsuit
United StatesRNS Abuse survivors, along with some members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and the SBC’s abuse reform taskforce, have denounced a Kentucky court filing by Southern Baptist entities aimed at limiting their liability for sexual abuse claims. A brief filed earlier this year by lawyers for the Executive Committee, Southern Baptist Theological […]
Jesus saved Beth Moore’s life. Twitter blew it up. A new memoir will tell the story.
RNS For the past few years, Bible teacher and best-selling author Beth Moore has been one tweet away from disaster. Moore, perhaps the best-known ex-Southern Baptist in the country, will recount her Twitter battles, her split with her former denomination and, more importantly, her lifelong journey with Jesus, in a new memoir titled All My […]
Parting company: US Bible teacher Beth Moore splitting with LifeWay, says, “I am no longer a Southern Baptist”
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks with high profile US Bible teacher Beth Moore about her decision to leave the Southern Baptist Convention and Christian publisher LifeWay…
Southern Baptist publishing arm, LifeWay, announces cuts due to COVID-19
RNS LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, has announced it will cut roughly 10 per cent of its operating budget through staff reductions, a hiring freeze and salary cuts. The move comes after five consecutive weeks of steep revenue decline in the wake of the coronavirus and the expectation that […]
For first time, US survey finds majority of Protestant pastors says global warming is real, man-made
RNS For years, the majority of US pastors surveyed about global warming continued to question whether it was real and whether it was caused by humans. But, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a new LifeWay Research survey shows that, for the first time since the company started asking, a majority […]
US: MORE CHURCHES ARE CHECKING THE NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – BUT IS IT HELPING?
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on how US churches are increasingly looking at the backgrounds of volunteers and employees…
Not just churches: In the US, camps are also prone to child sexual abuse
RNS Day and overnight camps are a staple of summer, a welcome relief for working parents. But they can also present opportunities for sexual predators. Last week, Noah Paradis, 19, a staffer at a LifeWay camp in Arizona, was arrested on five counts of inappropriate touching. PICTURE: Liam Macleod/Creative Commons The abuse allegedly took place during CentriKid Camp, which was held at […]
Updated: US chain LifeWay to close all stores in 2019
Last updated: 22nd March, 2019RNS LifeWay Christian Resources announced on Wednesday it will close all 170 of its brick-and-mortar stores in the US this year. That comes as LifeWay, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, shifts its resources online, according to the announcement on LifeWay’s Facts & Trends website. It will continue to offer resources […]
More than half of Protestant pastors in US say congregation sometimes seems to love their country more than God – survey
More than half of Protestant pastors in the US believe their congregation sometimes seems to love the US more than God, according to the findings of a new survey. The LifeWay poll of 1,000 Protestant pastors in the US, the results of which have been released as the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, found that […]