Southern Baptist Convention

This week, the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting delivered another series of setbacks for its conservative members. The proposed Law Amendment, which would have empowered the denomination’s credentials committee to remove…

Ahead of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in June, several Baptist leaders are once again drawing attention to failings of the convention’s policy and lobbying arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Last week…

It’s an astonishing proposition at first glance: the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the social service ministries of Catholic Charities are not “churchy” enough, as though that is any business of the courts (or government in…

Over the past decade, a growing divide has emerged within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as denominational leaders have increasingly framed left-leaning border policies as a Christian imperative. Last week, Baptist Press, the…

The following is an excerpt from Shepherds for Sale. When Maureen Maloney saw the tagline for the Evangelical Immigration Table, “Welcoming the Stranger,” she couldn’t help but feel a wave of bitterness. The same went when she saw…

When Albert Mohler called at 9:30 p.m., he had just arrived home from four 20-hour days at the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a…

Following an emotional debate at the annual meeting on Wednesday, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted to adopt a resolution opposing the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). The resolution, put forth by Southern Baptist Theological…

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is sharply divided over a proposed amendment to ban affiliated churches from allowing women to serve as pastors and elders. A vote on the amendment will take place at the annual SBC meeting this…

Every year, Southern Baptist life centers briefly around the annual convention. As I noted in a previous “Baptist insider” article for The Federalist, the denomination technically only exists for the two days of this convention. As such,…

DURHAM, N.C. — J.D. Greear, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in a podcast this week that when communicating with a person who identifies as transgender, he personally would “lean toward” using the individual’s…