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SBC: New and familiar faces elected

June 10, 2025 By Lisa Misner

Pressley reelected

Dallas | Clint Pressley was reelected to a second one-year term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention on the first day of the Annual Meeting in Dallas June 10. And his new first vice president is an evangelist familiar to many because of triumph over significant disabilities. One candidate elected without opposition was presented […]

Jennifer Lyell dies after brief illness

June 8, 2025 By Brandon Porter, Baptist Press

Jennifer Lyell

Nashville, Tenn. | A key figure in the Southern Baptist Convention’s investigation into the alleged mishandling of sexual abuse has died. Sources confirm to Baptist Press that Jennifer Lyell died late Saturday after a significant stroke. In 2018, Lyell told Baptist Press she had been sexually abused by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills […]

Proposed SBC resolutions ready for review ahead of annual meeting

June 3, 2025 By The Baptist Paper

SBC25

Eight resolutions to be proposed to messengers attending the upcoming SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas are ready for review. The resolutions committee released the proposed resolutions today (May 30) because of a bylaw change in 2023, which now requires the release at least 10 days ahead of the annual meeting. Previously, messengers received the resolutions […]

10 former SBC presidents urge avoiding ‘ultimatum’ with ERLC

May 22, 2025 By The Baptist Paper

Messengers at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis raise ballots.

An open letter released today (May 22) urges messengers planning to attend the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas to vote to keep the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission as an entity of the SBC should the anticipated motion to abolish it be proposed. Ten former SBC presidents signed the letter that also […]

NAMB purchase completed

May 22, 2025 By Eric Reed

Chicago Ministry Center

The North American Mission Board (NAMB) has purchased the building at 1356 N. Rockwell Street owned by the Chicagoland Baptist Association. The three-story brown brick structure will serve as a ministry center for NAMB and its Send Network operations in the city. The building, which is more than 100 years old, was first a school, […]

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SBC25 Dallas

7 BOLOs for the Dallas Convention

Eric Reed

If the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Dallas June 10-11 proves to be a rowdy rodeo, we will “be on the lookout” for these issues. 1. The long arm of the Law Amendment. The open letter to SBC churches on a method to resurrect the Law Amendment virtually guarantees that someone will try it. Asked […]

Nate Adams

Between summits

Nate Adams

Those who know me or who have been reading this column for a while know that I am on a bit of a quest to climb as many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains as possible. My oldest son, Caleb, and I have summited 37 “fourteeners” together, some with other family members. My wife, Beth, would be […]

Turning volunteers’ no’s into enthusiastic yes’s

Daniel Kim

In the third week of my internship, I was assigned to tear down chairs and tables after an event in our gym. Coming from a smaller church, I assumed I could handle it on my own—until I saw eight tables and 150 chairs that needed to be cleared. After three grueling hours, one thought kept […]

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SBC 2025: Back where we started

Illinois Baptist Staff

Dallas | Messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas June 10-11 arrived at the probability that motions from the floor on women and the pastorate, financial transparency, and the fate of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission would dominate the discussion. In the business sessions, they did. But in the end, […]

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Hannibal-LaGrange University

HLGU opposes mandate

Missouri Pathway

Hannibal, Mo.  | Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) is asking the U.S. Department of Education to be excluded from a Biden-era regulation requiring schools co-sign financial responsibility agreements. Without a religious exemption from the Program Participation Agreements (PPAs), HLGU plans to file a lawsuit to safeguard its religious freedoms. The unprecedented “co-signature mandate” interferes with the autonomy […]

Illinois Senate fails to call physician-assisted suicide bill for a vote

Nominees sought

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Mission

“While we have not yet arrived at the destination we envision, I believe we are clearly headed in the right direction,” said IMB President Paul Chitwood to trustees in the May 22 plenary session. IMB Photo

IMB trustees appoint new missionaries, elect first woman chair

Leslie Caldwell

Richmond | International Mission Board trustees approved 65 fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 21-22 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. The missionaries approved for appointment will be recognized during a Sending Celebration on Tuesday, June 10, at 10:08 a.m. CDT in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. The event will […]

Metro East church plant hosts multiplication meeting

Sallateeska baptism demonstrates SBC connections

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