Baptist Press will publish interviews with each of the four announced candidates for SBC president. The Illinois Baptist newspaper will excerpt the interviews as they are released and will also publish the excerpts here. Messengers will elect the next president of the SBC at the denomination’s annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Randy Adams […]
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Floyd urges unity and vision, decries ‘sound of war’
The SBC Executive Committee gathered Feb. 22-23 for the first time since COVID-19 shut down virtually all in-person meetings. The Nashville meeting was marked by leaders’ calls for cooperation amid several public fractures in Baptist life: racial tensions, a dispute between six state conventions and the North American Mission Board, and a recently released report […]
Task force issues report on ERLC
Nashville, Tenn. | A task force appointed last year by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee to study past and current actions of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission released its report Feb. 1. Tasked with determining whether the ERLC’s actions have had negative impact on giving through the Cooperative Program, the group elicited feedback […]
SBC leaders address race debate
Nashville, Tenn. | The presidents of six Southern Baptist seminaries and officers of the National African American Fellowship (NAAF) met in January following weeks of tension over race relations and a statement released by the seminary presidents. The virtual conversation was convened by SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd after the seminary presidents declared Critical […]
Crowded field for SBC prexy
The race for the SBC presidency gained three additional contenders in January in Randy Adams, Ed Litton, and Mike Stone. They join R. Albert Mohler Jr., who announced his intention to run again after a bid in 2020 was stalled due to the canceled Southern Baptist Convention. The candidates, all who announced much earlier than […]
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