Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) will remain open for the fall 2022 semester, Transitional President Rodney Harrison told faculty, staff, and students in early May. Gifts have surpassed $1 million, including a record $227,815 from HLGU’s 2022 Day of Giving, but the total is still short of the $2.2 million HLGU leadership said was needed. “On March […]
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‘Tears and grief’: Iowa church gathers for prayer after deadly shooting
(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 […]
EC trustees vote to approve initial, future funding of sexual abuse response
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee (EC) voted June 2 to revise previously recommended budgets in order to fund recommendations made by the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF). A special-called Zoom meeting, attended by 57 of 67 current members, addressed reallocating funds given in excess of the 2021-22 national Cooperative Program Allocation Budget approved at last year’s […]
SATF recommends ‘Ministry Check’ database, Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force
A report issued June 1 from the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF) includes “challenges” for Southern Baptist groups toward better abuse prevention policies as well as two recommendations, including the formation of a website to maintain a record of those credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse. Those challenges included the request for a $3 […]
3 views on abuse response
In the period between release of the third-party investigation of the SBC Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse claims in the denomination and the SBC Annual Meeting where messengers will act on recommendations for reform, several things became clear. Everyone has an opinion on the report and its findings. Not everyone who has commented has […]
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