Two teenage daughters of an Illinois Baptist pastor and the pastor’s sister were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer near Breckenmeyer in Clinton County on Friday. The girls, 17-year-old Savanna Grace Broughton and 15-year-old Brooke-Lynn Kay Broughton, are the daughters of Scott and Amanda Broughton. He is the pastor of First Baptist Church […]
Abortion by the numbers
Opinions on abortion Of likely U.S. voters, 48% would approve of the Roe v. Wade ruling being overturned by the Supreme Court according to a new Rasmussen poll. However, 59% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to Pew Research. “Abortion should mostly be illegal” Pew Research polled U.S. adults in […]
IBSA Executive Director responds to SCOTUS ruling
Illinois Baptist State Association Executive Director Nate Adams provided a statement regarding today’s (June 24) U.S. Supreme Court decision in the abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. The Court’s decision overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling, calling it unconstitutional and returned the decision of whether or not to legalize abortion to individual […]
Sandy Wisdom Martin inspires with baptism story
(Editor’s note: Illinois’ very own Sandy Wisdom Martin told a heartwarming story from her home state in her report as WMU Executive Director-Treasurer to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Anaheim.) I want to tell you why I believe so passionately in what we do together as Southern Baptists. Last fall, I was on my […]
Controversial ERLC survives defunding motion
The SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission survived a ballot vote to defund it, and is poised to fight another day on issues including abortion and expected battles in state legislatures. A plea by Richard Land, first president of the ERLC, capped a brief debate over defunding the sometimes troubled agency that has been accused […]
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