Charleston, S.C. | Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear will speak to the SBC Executive Committee Feb. 18 on the progress of a study group tasked with exploring how the denomination has handled sexual abuse. Greear’s presentation at the Executive Committee’s meeting was scheduled prior to a three-part report in the Houston Chronicle on hundreds […]
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Paper’s sexual abuse report leaves SBC’s Greear ‘broken’
A Houston newspaper, in reporting on instances of sexual abuse by pastors and others at Southern Baptist churches, has left SBC President J.D. Greear “broken over what was revealed today.” “The abuses described in this @HoustonChron article are pure evil,” Greear stated in a series of tweets after the Houston Chronicle reported today (Feb. 10) […]
EC search committee has ‘actively pursued’ non-Anglos
Nashville | Responding to “recent online stories and related social media activity,” the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s presidential search committee says it has “actively pursued resumes from non-Anglo candidates.” In a Feb. 7 statement to the full EC, the search committee also said it “will not have a nomination to share” at the EC’s […]
LifeWay announces store closures
LifeWay Christian Resources, which operates 174 stores in the U.S., announced Jan. 15 that it will close locations, although the e-mail to the organization’s employees did not say how many. The stores lost $35.5 million dollars in 2017, while the rest of the Southern Baptist publishing house’s product line produced $452 million, an increase of […]
Southern Baptists remember two former presidents
Southern Baptists are mourning two men who each led the Southern Baptist Convention during a pivotal time in its history. Evangelist Bailey Smith, who helped sustain the denomination’s return to conservative theology (known as the Conservative Resurgence) at its outset, died Jan. 14 at home in Georgia. He was 79. Smith’s election as SBC president […]
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