Sexual abuse prevention experts Kimberlee Norris and Gregory Love spoke to Southern Baptist ministry leaders gathered in Dallas Oct. 3-5 for a conference designed to help churches navigate the abuse crisis. The attorneys, also a married couple, founded the MinistrySafe child safety system after decades of litigating sexual abuse cases. Norris and Love train churches […]
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Churches urged to prevent abuse, care well for survivors
The Caring Well Conference began in Dallas Oct. 3, bringing together more than 1,300 Southern Baptists watching online to mourn sexual abuse, work toward its prevention, and pursue strategies to care well for survivors in the church. Russell Moore opened the conference with the sobering story of a 1960s church bombing. When 16th Street Baptist […]
Mandrell quotes Jesus, Lincoln at LifeWay installation
Tampico, Ill., native Ben Mandrell was installed as the 10th president of LifeWay Christian Resources and its predecessor, the Baptist Sunday School Board, in a ceremony at the publisher’s headquarters Aug. 26. Mandrell, most recently founding pastor of Storyline Fellowship Church in Arvada, Col., pointed to the cultural challenges faced by Southern Baptists’ main purveyor […]
Hurricane Dorian: Baptists move to respond
Hurricane Dorian made landfall Friday (Sept. 6) in northeast North Carolina as a Category 1 storm at Cape Hatteras as first responders in the Bahamas still worked to reach survivors after the storm’s devastating visit to those islands. Southern Baptists are working to serve both fronts. As the storm traveled up the east coast, flash […]
Chair elected for retooled SBC committee
At its first meeting July 22, the new Credentials Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention elected Stacy Bramlett of Tennessee to serve as chair. The committee is charged with making inquiries and recommendations for action regarding sexual abuse, racism, or other issues that call a church’s relationship with the SBC into question. Bramlett is one […]
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