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5 days ago · SBC membership has dipped below 13 million, nearly a half-century low. Baptismal rates are in long-term decline. The amendment, if passed, wouldn’t prompt an immediate purge.
5 hours ago · Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports. A prominent Virginia Baptist church was expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention because it has a female pastor. The SBC — the nation’s ...
5 hours ago · The church was first reported to the convention’s credentials committee in 2022, as it had two female pastors at the time. Two other Southern Baptist churches, one in Kentucky, the other in California, lost their memberships last year, as they also had women pastors. Stephens said his church is committed to having both male and female pastors.
13 hours ago · The action reversed a preliminary vote last year in favor of the official ban. ... Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia and author of the amendment, cited a report that there ...
11 hours ago · June 12, 2024, 11:55 a.m. ET. Southern Baptists rejected a move on Wednesday to crack down on congregations with women in pastoral leadership. The vote dealt an unexpected rebuke to a hard-right ...
2 days ago · By S.E. Jenkins. Updated on: June 11, 2024 / 2:36 PM CDT / CBS Texas. NORTH TEXAS — A well-known evangelical pastor in North Texas says he is stepping away from the ministry. Dr. Tony Evans says ...
13 hours ago · North Carolina pastor Spence Shelton said in the only speech against the measure during a brief floor debate. "We showed last year we have an effective mechanism," Shelton said. "It allows us to ...
