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  National Prayer Breakfast will be virtual in 2021

  The National Prayer Breakfast will be a virtual event next year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

  12/18/2020 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Southwestern Seminary provost steps down

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced an abrupt change in academic leadership Dec. 17.

  12/18/2020 - By Southwestern Seminary Staff

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  NAMB will petition Supreme Court in McRaney lawsuit

  The North American Mission Board has filed a motion for a stay in a lawsuit involving a former Southern Baptist leader in order to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.

  12/17/2020 - By Jonathan Howe / Baptist Press

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  Baptist hospital chaplain among first to receive COVID vaccine

  Silvia Briones—a hospital chaplain endorsed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas—was among the first people in Texas to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16.

  12/16/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

• Obituary: Gloria Bussey McQueen

  Gloria Bussey McQueen, a pioneering leader in Baptist youth ministry, died Dec. 9 in Arlington. She was 92.

  12/16/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Pakistani court acquits Christian imprisoned for blasphemy

  A court in Pakistan acquitted a Christian who was serving a life sentence in prison under that nation’s blasphemy laws.

  12/16/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: Baylor completes NCAA committee hearing

  Baylor University officials completed a two-day virtual hearing Dec. 15 with a seven-member panel of the NCAA’s committee on infractions.

  12/16/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Beth Moore trends on Twitter after taking Trumpism to task

  As supporters of President Trump’s allegations of voter fraud persisted in questioning the results of the election five weeks since it was called for Joe Biden, some evangelical leaders have had enough.

  12/14/2020 - By Roxanne Stone / Religion News Service

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  Couple married 50 years died of COVID-19 hours apart        

  Death due to COVID-19 kept Willard and Wilma Gain Bowen apart only a few hours on Thanksgiving Day.

  12/14/2020 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Black Southern Baptists respond to seminary presidents

  The president of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention responded to a recent statement by Southern Baptist seminary presidents regarding critical race theory.

  12/14/2020 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

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  Court rules relief under RFRA includes monetary damages

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that people whose religious freedom rights under RFRA have been violated can seek the same legal remedies—including monetary damages against individuals—as anyone protected under other civil rights laws.

  12/11/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Labor Department rule expands religious exemption

  The U.S. Department of Labor issued a new rule intended to foster “full and equal participation” of religious groups as federal contractors.

  12/10/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service