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Executive Committee president search team receiving recommendations

June 22, 2022 By Scott Barkley

SBC Executive Committee

After a season of prayer, the group tasked with presenting the next candidate for president/CEO of the Executive Committee wanted to hear from Southern Baptists before taking next steps. The team is now ready begin the search in earnest. Messengers to last week’s annual meeting in Anaheim approved recommendations from the Sexual Abuse Task Force […]

With SATF recommendations approved, the hard part begins

June 21, 2022 By Lisa Misner

Bruce Frank, chairman of the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force

“The recommendations before you are not from Guidepost, they are from the task force,” Bruce Frank, chairman of the Sexual Abuse Task Force told messengers as they prepared to vote on a set of history-making recommendations at the SBC Annual Meeting June 14-15 in Anaheim, Calif. The task force was assigned and authorized by action […]

What is clear and unclear after Anaheim

June 16, 2022 By Ben Jones

Photo by Adam Covington

Clear: Despite loud voices on social media and at the floor microphones voicing opposition to the Sexual Abuse Task Force recommendations and to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, urging messengers to “change the direction,” there is a quiet majority in the SBC. If the messengers at Anaheim are a representation of the people in […]

SBC calls for consistent laws across states on abuse and sharing information

June 16, 2022 By Eric Reed

Newly elected SBC President Bart Barber chaired this year's SBC Committee on Resolutions. Photo by Karen McCutcheon

Messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention called on lawmakers in all 50 states to enact legislation creating uniform definitions for pastoral sexual abuse, and they gave Baptists in the states a tool for urging the legislation. Resolution 5 “On Consistent Laws Regarding Pastoral Sexual Abuse” was part of a package of actions on the […]

SBC Final Day: No coasting allowed

June 15, 2022 By Ben Jones

Kevin Smith, Ethics & Religious Commission vice chair and campus pastor of Family Church Village in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The last day of the convention is a “downhill day.” Anticipations, expectations, and even tensions build the first few days. Wednesday is the peak, the height of all that messengers come expecting. The most talked-about votes are now in the past. Most of what is left are reports, seminary luncheons, and last opportunities to catch […]

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