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  Marine veteran plants churches near military bases

  As a 10-year, active duty service member in the Marine Corps, Brian O’Day regularly moved with his family. He traveled to 15 different countries including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

  11/11/2019 - By Brandon Elrod / Baptist Press

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  Analysis: What Mohler’s nomination for SBC president means

  There are seven more months before the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. But the race for SBC president may already be over, following news that Al Mohler likely will be nominated to run as the denomination’s next president.

  11/05/2019 - By Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Florida church signals discipline over racial prejudices

  A majority white Baptist church has apologized for ‘racial prejudices’ that leaders deemed partly responsible for a favored black candidate losing the Oct. 27 vote for pastor, and said it will discipline those guilty of the sin.

  11/04/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Mohler nominee for SBC president in 2020

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler will be nominated in June 2020 to serve as Southern Baptist Convention president.

  11/04/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  WMU team seeks to break cycle of domestic violence

  As a member of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia’s Hope Team: Domestic Violence, Jocelyn Henry-Whitehead emphasizes domestic violence is “really a global issue.”

  11/04/2019 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Abusive childhood inspires domestic violence ministry

  How do an abusive childhood, missions involvement and harp music merge into a ministry? For Jocelyn Henry-Whitehead, it’s the story of how turbulent growing-up years led her into ministry geared toward others who suffer the trauma of domestic violence.

  11/04/2019 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Baptists differ over evangelical movement

  A Baylor University historian, an ethicist and a pastor—all Baptists—disagreed about the usefulness of the term “evangelical” and the state of evangelicalism in a recent conversation at the Museum of the Bible.

  11/01/2019 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor

  A prominent Southern Baptist church in southwest Florida acknowledged “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate.

  11/01/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  MacArthur blasts Beth Moore, accuses SBC of rejecting biblical authority

  During a celebration of his 50th year in pulpit ministry, John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church, admonished Beth Moore to “go home.”

  10/22/2019 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Scholars and journalists grapple with language about abuse

  Christianity is reassessing how to describe sexual misconduct, with an eye to owning up to the seriousness of abuse that was once dismissed as innocent or covered up to protect the powerful.

  10/14/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks & Emily McFarland Miller / Religion News Service

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  SBC leaders hear criticism of abuse response

  Southern Baptist leaders wrestled with questions of procedure and accountability during a gathering on sexual abuse, grappling with how best to address an issue some say the denomination took far too long to address.

  10/07/2019 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Church sexual abuse crisis ‘a gospel issue,’ speakers insist

  The gospel cannot be separated from how the church deals with sexual abuse, Southern Baptist leaders J.D. Greear and Russell Moore told the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s sixth annual national conference.

  10/07/2019 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press