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The world and the church are ‘two completely separate kingdoms,’ MacArthur urges at CBN event

June 13, 2022 By The Baptist Paper

Nearly 1,200 people gathered at the Anaheim Marriott the evening of June 12 for a three-hour Conservative Baptist Network event featuring Voddie Baucham and John MacArthur. Baucham is dean of the School of Divinity at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. MacArthur is pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. Neither are Southern […]

‘Tears and grief’: Iowa church gathers for prayer after deadly shooting

June 3, 2022 By The Baptist Paper

(Editor’s note: In March, a collegiate ministry group, The Salt Company, from Cornerstone Church traveled to Bloomington to help plant a church among Illinois State University students.) A church in Ames, Iowa, is grieving after a gunman fatally shot two female victims and then himself in the church parking lot Thursday night (June 2). “We’re […]

SBC Exec Comm approves slate of recommendations

February 24, 2022 By The Baptist Paper

Framed with prayers, sermons and renewed relationships, denominational business was the focus for 66 members of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee gathering in Nashville for a regularly scheduled meeting Feb. 21–22. Two of the now 68-member board were not in attendance. While the opening plenary session showcased interim president and CEO Willie McLaurin (read […]

SBC Executive Committee interim president McLaurin: God ‘allowing us to hit the reset button’

February 11, 2022 By The Baptist Paper

One week into his new role as interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, Willie McLaurin told Baptist editors, “In this season, the Lord is allowing us to hit the reset button. He’s allowing us to really just say, ‘What is it that we’re really trying to do?’” McLaurin, who previously served two […]

SBC Executive Committee trustee resignations up to six since September meeting

October 5, 2021 By The Baptist Paper

Update: Following the Oct. 5 EC vote to waive attorney-client privilege, the total number of resignations has risen to eight as reported by The Alabama Baptist. So far six trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee have resigned since the Sept. 20–21 regularly scheduled meeting in Nashville. They are: Robyn Hari of Tennessee, who […]