Southern Baptist executive committee hires Guidepost Solutions to review Moore allegations
RNS Responding to allegations that it has mishandled allegations of abuse in the past, the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee announced Friday that it had retained a firm to “conduct an independent review of its processes,” according to a statement from Ronnie Floyd, president of the executive committee. The review by Guidepost Solutions comes in […]
Secret recordings show Southern Baptist dispute on sex abuse
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP Releases of leaked letters and secret recordings from within the Southern Baptist Convention intensified Thursday as critics sought to show top leaders were slow to address sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and worried more about its reputation and donations than about victims. A former executive of the denomination’s ethics […]
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 […]
Russell Moore parts from Southern Baptists personally as well as professionally
RNS Russell Moore, who recently resigned as the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist, has also moved on from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination personally, attending a Tennessee church that is not affiliated with the SBC. TJ Tims, lead pastor of Immanuel Nashville, announced Tuesday on social media that Moore is now the church’s minister in […]
Southern Baptists: Russell Moore leaves leadership, but denomination’s troubles remain
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, looks at the issues facing the largest Protestant denomination in the US…
In the US, Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for ‘Christianity Today’
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS Russell Moore, the embattled Southern Baptist ethicist and “Never Trumper,” is resigning as president of his denomination’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Religion News Service has learned. Moore will be joining the staff of Christianity Today – the leading evangelical magazine, founded by the late evangelist Billy Graham – as a public theologian. […]
In the US, Francis Collins urges evangelicals: “Love your neighbour”, get COVID-19 vaccine
RNS Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken evangelical Christian, urged his fellow evangelicals, many of whom have resisted the COVID-19 vaccine, to get the shot and encourage others to do the same. “It’s not just about this decision for yourself; it’s also about the opportunity to do something […]
Southern Baptists: Divisions over politics, race, gender and LGBTQ policy roil largest US Protestant denomination
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on the issues expected to be on the agenda at an upcoming meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee in the US…
In the US, Russell Moore, Justin Giboney warn that conspiracies must be confronted with truth
RNS Two Christian experts on religion and culture called on faith leaders last week to combat the conspiracy theories that they say contributed to the mob violence at the Capitol. “How much do we have to see, from the Comet Pizza situation all the way through to what happened yesterday?” asked Russell Moore, president of […]
SBC leader Russell Moore to Trump: Time to leave. “People are dead”
RNS Russell Moore, head ethicist for the country’s largest Protestant denomination, called on Donald Trump to resign as president after Wednesday’s mob attack on the US Capitol. “Mr President, people are dead,” Moore tweeted on Friday after Trump boasted on social media about the “great American Patriots” that voted for him. “The Capitol is ransacked. There are 12 dangerous […]