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  Beth Moore and Kay Warren address effects of sexual abuse

  Courage and a recognition of trauma’s long-term effects are called for if the church is to deal sufficiently with its sexual abuse crisis, two well-known evangelical women told a Southern Baptist Convention conference on the subject.

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

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  Southern Baptists finalize plans for rebuild in Bahamas

  Representatives of Baptist Global Response, Southern Baptist disaster relief, the International Mission Board, and two state Baptist conventions toured the Bahamas to scout ways for Southern Baptists to support Baptist churches on the islands.

  10/01/2019 - By Tobin Perry / Baptist Press

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  SBC puts hope in Baptism Sunday as numbers decline

  Reported baptisms among Southern Baptist churches have declined in eight of the last 10 years. The falling numbers helped prompt the SBC Executive Committee to name Sept. 8 as Baptism Sunday.

  09/10/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Churches challenged to ‘care well’ in midst of abuse crisis

  The sexual abuse crisis in churches led hundreds of congregations to accept the Caring Well Challenge—a Southern Baptist Convention initiative to help churches prevent abuse and care for abuse survivors.

  09/10/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Dockery joins Southwestern Seminary faculty

  Theologian and educator David Dockery has joined the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty as professor of theology.

  08/28/2019 - By Julie Owens / Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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  CommonCall: Strengthen ministry by strengthening marriage

  An initiative to strengthen ministers and their families in Juarez grew out of longstanding relationships a campus minister in Levelland developed with pastors in the Mexican border city.

  08/26/2019 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  God uses Mission Friends to prepare leader’s heart

  As a Mission Friends leader in Alabama, Kathryn Nunnelley delighted in sharing stories about missions and missionaries with enthusiastic preschoolers. Perhaps more significantly, God was instilling a call to missions in her own heart.

  08/20/2019 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Pastor shares lessons learned about Alzheimer’s, dementia

  As a minister for more than 40 years, Mike Glenn walked through the valley of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with many families. But he admits that until you face it personally, it is hard to understand what a family goes through.

  08/12/2019 - By Lonnie Wilkey / Baptist and Reflector

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  Southwestern Seminary denies liability in sex abuse lawsuit

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary says it is not liable for any monetary damages to a former student who claims in a lawsuit she was raped on campus at gunpoint by a student the seminary employed.

  08/09/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Video leads to board resignations from Calvinist group

  Several board members have resigned from a neo-Calvinist evangelical group that released a trailer of a planned film linking prominent Southern Baptists with a conspiracy to promote social justice advocacy in evangelical churches. 

  08/05/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  SBC leaders note ‘urgent need’ along the border

  Southern Baptist Convention leaders met in Tijuana with leaders of the National Baptist Convention of Mexico, Baptist pastors and Southern Baptist workers in Mexico to learn about ministry to people caught in the crisis on the border.

  07/30/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Boto to retire from SBC Executive Committee

  D. August “Augie” Boto announced he will retire from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee effective Sept. 30.

  07/26/2019 - By Ken Camp