Southern Baptist Executive Committee agrees to a resolution with Jennifer Lyell
Nashville, Tennessee, US RNS Southern Baptist leaders announced on Tuesday that they had reached a resolution with a sexual abuse survivor whose story was mishandled when she came forward in 2019. Jennifer Lyell, a former publishing executive for Lifeway Christian Resources, told Baptist Press in 2019 that she had experienced abuse for years at the […]
In the US, Tennessee pastor, first African American, named to key SBC post
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP Tennessee pastor Willie McLaurin has been named interim president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, becoming the first African American to lead one of the denomination’s ministry entities in its more than 175-year history. McLaurin’s appointment as one of the top administrators for the largest Protestant church body in […]
Probe of Southern Baptist sex abuse response moves forward
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP Rev Marshall Blalock feels the weight of his new responsibility. The South Carolina pastor serves as vice chair of a recently formed Southern Baptist Convention taskforce charged with overseeing an investigation into how a top denominational committee handled sex abuse allegations, a review that comes years into the SBC’s public reckoning with […]
Ahead of US meeting, pressure mounts for an independent investigation of SBC executive committee handling of abuse
RNS The chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee plans to call for an independent investigation into the committee’s handling of sexual abuse claims when it meets next week in Nashville, Tennessee. Rolland Slade, pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California, said he would also support a proposal from two Southern Baptist pastors […]