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“There is no question that Judge Barrett is qualified by intellectual acumen and years of experience to serve on the highest court in the land,” said [Russell] Moore...

Southern Baptist leaders welcome Barrett nomination

Amy Coney Barrett
By: Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP)—Southern Baptist leaders Russell Moore and Ronnie Floyd commended President Trump’s nomination Saturday (Sept. 26) of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. As expected,Read More

Some expect decreased in-person attendance to be permanent.

Pandemic prompts churches to consider permanent changes

Long Hollow worship
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 4, 2020 (BP) – Every church has adjusted some aspects of ministry since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. But even as the effects of COVID-19Read More

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced Tuesday (July 21) it will remove Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center...

Pro-lifers: More needed to disavow Sanger’s eugenics legacy

by:Tom Strode WASHINGTON, July 22, 2020 (BP) — Pro-life advocates, including a Southern Baptist, welcomed a Planned Parenthood affiliate’s repudiation of founder Margaret Sanger’s eugenics advocacy but said the country’sRead More

Body of missing SBC pastor’s wife found

By: Baptist Press staff WEST MEMPHIS, Ark., Aug. 19, 2020 (BP) — The vehicle of Marilane Carter, a pastor’s wife who’d been missing more than two weeks, was found TuesdayRead More

News of Powell’s death was shared on social media by Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Texas church planter John Powell killed in accident

John Powell
by: Bob Smietana July 19, 2020 (RNS) —  John Powell, a church planter and pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas, was killed in a highway accident SaturdayRead More

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Opinion: American History Is Not Canceled – Christianity Today

While Christians can’t erase the church’s slaveholding past, we can change the symbols, statues, and namesakes we celebrate. Read the opinion article at Christianity Today: American History Is Not Canceled

But Pastor Micaiah Irmler, one of two San Jose pastors jointly suing the Santa Clara County for limiting churches during the pandemic, said he plans to defy the latest order.

California churches ordered to cancel indoor worship in at least 30 counties

Southridge Church
by Diana Chandler FRESNO, Calif., July 14, 2020 (BP) — Many California Southern Baptist pastors will likely find ways to continue to worship while obeying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Monday (JulyRead More

The idea is that the government should not impose on religious institutions in matters of faith and doctrine.

Supreme Court broadens scope of ministerial exception

by: Yonat Shimron July 8, 2020 (RNS) — The Supreme Court has ruled that religious school teachers who perform a religious role, even if they are not ordained, and evenRead More

In their letter, [Russell] Moore and the other EIT members asked Trump to urge leaders in Congress "publicly and consistently" to adopt a measure that establishes a pathway for Dreamers...

Moore, others ask Trump not to rescind DACA

DACA support
by Tom Strode WASHINGTON, July 9, 2020 (BP) — Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and other evangelical Christian leaders have asked President Trump to hold off on another effort toRead More

[T]he broader SBC and white Southern Baptists decreased in all categories...

Southern Baptists report growth among ethnic minorities despite declines in broader SBC

by Diana Chandler NASHVILLE, June 25, 2020 (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention is growing in three key metrics among ethnic minority fellowships despite a continuing decline among the broaderRead More